Freud accused Adler of becoming famous by reducing psychoanalysis to the commonsense level of the layperson. About Adler, Freud said, “I have made a pygmy great” (Wittels, 1924, p. 225). History shows that Freud and Adler never had much in common, and it was probably a mistake for Adler to join the Freudians. Ernest Jones (1955) summarized Adler’s major disagreements with Freud: