I dont consider psychology as a science. The psychology related studies usually have high failure rate. Any ideology that says "You are bad because this happened in your childhood" is not only very stupid, but one could even say pointless. Therefore, it is of no surprise that psychology didnt result in decrease of mental illnesses. In fact, the success rate of psychology in dealing with mental illnesses is non-existent. Prayer is more likely than psychology to cure the depression.
So naturally, to compensate for its high failure rate, psychology turns to studies in hope that it discovers something that was previously hidden.
One such study is about maternal antipathy. That is when mother dislikes her child and the effects it has on child.
"The current study provides initial evidence for differential mechanisms in the relationship between maternal antipathy, a specific, but common type of adverse childhood experience, and altered neural reward responses to social reward anticipation".
There are only two most logical conclusions that can come from this study's conclusion:
1) Make antipathy illegal, so it stops harming children
2) Force parents to pay compensations for harming their children.
Here, you will notice something. The psychologists disagree with conclusions 1 and 2, but agree with the study's conclusion.
This is equal to saying "We agree that this problem exists, but we dont want to do anything real to solve it".
What psychologists really want - and what the point of these studies is - is to get more people to visit psychologists so that psychologists can earn more money.
Unlike the religion, the psychology is not a non-profit organization.
Unlike the prayer and the talk with God, the talk with psychologist is not free.
Therefore, the point of studies is not to solve the problem, as proven by response to conclusions 1 and 2. The point of studies is to make profit from that problem.