i can answer that question for you from he worked with freud and was indeed at that time known as a psychoanalyst adler broke from freud in and initially called his work free psychoanalysis but later called it individual psychology although to a general lay public freud jung and adler are often seen as the big three of psychoanalysis in the strict sense only freud was a psychoanalyst jung was an analytical psychologist and adler an individual psychologist use of these alternative terms helps to clarify how both jung and adler broke from freud and developed their own schools of therapy