Is psychology mostly used to benefit people or to control them?

Answer 1

I have seen it used as both.

I know some fantastic psychologists who would die to help others.

I also have seen it used to manipulate others.

God bless the good people who use it to help others.

Answer 2

psychology is ONLY used to hurt people and make money.

depression is not real, but since a "doctor" is telling you that you have it, I guess people believe it.

Depression can be fixed with vitamins and a change in lifestyle, but people are dumbstruck and run to a doctor who just puts them on pills. the doctor makes so much money off prescribing those pills.

I was told I have a sleeping disorder by a psychologist ONLY because for a few days I kept having muscle spasms while sleeping. The muscle spasms were caused by the position I was in and how tired I was....not because I have a disorder!

I HATE psychology, it has NEVER helped anyone.

Take a look at a psychologists child- that child is so misbehaved, a tattle tail, cries over everything to get attention and makes fun of other children for no reason. I worked in a day care and can honestly say that the only child I didn't really like was the psychologists daughter- and I didn't know her parents were psychologist until I was done at that job so it was NOT me saying I don't like psychologists.

ANYWAY, NO PSYCHOLOGY DOES NOT BENEFIT ANYONE.

the government just makes so much money of it, not that the money is spent properly anyway, so nope. No one is helped, just lives are ruined. End of Story.

Answer 3

In most cases, it's used to benefit people.

In some cases, it's used to help people better control themselves (for example, a person who has a tendency to lash out in rage will try to learn to control that and express it more appropriately).

It's never ethical to use the profession to expressly control a person for the therapist's benefit or because that's what the therapist wants

Answer 4

Tom Cruise, it that you? But seriously, I have a BS in Psych and I think that most people go into the profession for noble reasons. However, I am not convinced that counseling is very effective. I have received counseling in the past, and I have yet to find a competant counselor. I know that they exist, but I think that they are few and far between. As far as using psychology to control people, I think that only happens in rare cases. If done correctly, it should be used to point people in the right direction.

Answer 5

It depends.

If you're on the psychologist or psychiatrist side, you start out thinking you may help people. Then you just try to keep them under control, and hence they keep coming back to you and you make more money.

If you're a client or patient, you feel that it's not working, so you try another office of "experts", and then finally you find one who helps you stand on your own two feet. Then you face your troubles and only contact them when you have another situation that is overwhelming.

If society ever stops downgrading their profession and accepts mental health problems as just as important as medical problems, then we will benefit from making all people feel more equal. That includes when we have a "bad day" or a bad time that lasts more than a day.

We hope the next generation accepts all problems as indications that there are solutions and we just have to find them as we work together.

GOD bless us one and all, always.

Answer 6

Both. Some people benefit by being controlled.

Answer 7

I believe both..to help people understand things in another perspective and used to maniplulate the weak insecure sleepers

Answer 8

I think they try to help people, but it's a pseudoscience at best.