ABSTRACT
Daniel Dennett has created a formal model of different kinds of explanations. Rosenberg, for his part, states that most ordinary and many scientific explanations are explanation sketches. There is no reason to presume psychoanalytic theories to be something more. Psychobiography, clinical psychology in general and perhaps all domains of applied psychology should be held to fall in the domain of micropsychology: their primary interest is in individual, unrepeatable cases. Although many psychoanalytic thinkers would miss those strict Freudian principles, giving up the universal claims concerning the essence of humans is reasonable, since that makes the burden of the proof of theories considerably lighter. Familiarity may also be due to the fact that the psychoanalytic tradition entails many different models and theories. The Grunbaum battle is commonly known even outside of psychoanalytic circles, but it is rarely noticed that it does not necessarily have a lot to do with the psychoanalytic therapy as practised by present-day clinicians.
