What good is psychology for society?

'Psychology attempts to explain consciousness, behavior, and social interaction,' says wikipedia. Psychology finds ways to help people understand themselves, and how they think. It also finds problems in the way people think and interact with others. On the other hand, psychology has the potential to overanalyze people and make them believe they dont have control over their own mind. So, I would have to say that psychology is good for society while it maintains that it isn't fact. Psychology is what one person thinks about what another person is thinking. This has lots of wiggle room in interpretations and thought. To sum it up, psychology is extremely good for a society in the way that it helps people overcome problems and understand what they and others are thinking but it has the potential to be taken to seriously and impact a society in a negative way. As long as people know that everyone thinks differently, psychology has a valid place in our society.

-Trevor Wood