From 1902 Adler was a leading participant in the circle of physicians and others who gathered to form the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society at the invitation of the founder of the group, Sigmund Freud. His relationship with Freud, whom he served as confidant and personal physician, was especially close. Later, as the Society took on a more formal character, Adler became its first president, and the co-editor of its first journal. By 1911, however, it was apparent that Adler’s theoretical development was moving in ways that were not congruent with Freud’s ideas.
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