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In the year 2000, in a paper titled Quantum Theory Needs No 'Interpretation',Chris Fuchs and Asher Peres presented a series of instrumentalist argumentsagainst the role played by 'interpretations' in QM. Since then --quiteregardless of the publication of this paper-- the number of interpretations hasexperienced a continuous growth constituting what Adan Cabello hascharacterized as a "map of madness". In this work, we discuss the reasonsbehind this dangerous fragmentation in understanding and provide new argumentsagainst the need of interpretations in QM which --opposite to those of Fuchsand Peres-- are derived from a representational realist understanding oftheories --grounded in the writings of Einstein, Heisenberg and Pauli.Furthermore, we will argue that there are reasons to believe that the creationof 'interpretations' for the theory of quanta has functioned as a trap designedby anti-realists in order to imprison realists in a labyrinth with no exit.Taking as a standpoint the critical analysis by David Deutsch to theanti-realist understanding of physics, we attempt to address the references androles played by 'theory' and 'observation'. In this respect, we will argue thatthe key to escape the anti-realist trap of interpretation is to recognize that--as Einstein told Heisenberg almost one century ago-- it is only the theorywhich can tell you what can be observed. Finally, we will conclude that what QMneeds is not a new interpretation but instead, a theoretical(formal-conceptual) consistent, coherent and unified scheme which allows us tounderstand what the theory is really talking about.

Quantum Theory Needs No 'Interpretation' But 'Theoretical  Formal-Conceptual Unity' (Or: Escaping Adan Cabello's "Map of Madness" With  the Help of David Deutsch's Explanations)