ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relation between psychological and neurobiological explanations. It examines the nature of causes in general, and the causes of psychic disorders in particular, which shall be closely related to a critique presented by Adolf Grunbaum. The chapter presents the consequences of the fact that psychoanalysis is interested in idiosynchratic phenomena. It describes the notable implications these considerations bear on what one should think about the nature of psychoanalytic theories. The chapter explores the study on whether it is possible to reveal laws in the domains of psychoanalysis and other psychological disciplines. One might think that psychology and neurobiology possess territories of their own, and as a consequence psychological phenomena were searched for and given psychological explanations and neurobiological phenomena neurobiological explanations. Contrary to that, the interests of cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and the neurosciences, lie on a species-specific level, bracketing individual differences.
