Primatedave-feral children are denied not only an emotional attachment with a parent, but emtotional attachments with anyone. They are denied physical nutrition, sun, and many times are sexually or physically abused in addition. They are treated like non-humans. They're sad outcome (usually death at an early age) cannot be solely contributed to denial of nurturing in the sense of a good parental relationship-rather brain function slows down and development slows down because they are not given the physical and mental needs. So, it's like saying that a person dying because they are starved to death is equatable to a person dying because they were beat as a child, but otherwise had a normal environment. These are different issues, "environment" cannot be tagged to physical needs not being met (causing trauma) AND emotional needs not being met (causing trauma).
Compound-Actually psychology is a science, supported by evidence from both studies and physical outcome-CLINICAL psychology is not an exact science. There is a known gap between the science of psychology and the practice of it; for instance there was a study done by two psychologists on the outcome of childhood sexual abuse (I'm in a hurry to type this-will find it for you though) the factual outcome of the majority of children studied showed that people can and mostly do recover and go on to lead normal lives after sexual abuse. The study was so politically and socially incorrect, the two scientists were virtually flogged for stating the outcome. A clinical psychologist may know that a person can recover from sexual abuse, but their practice of psychology allows them subjective and discriminatory use of their skills to help a person reach their own goals......SO : ) I disagree, I see psychology as a provable science no less removed than medical science.