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Examples Of Recovered Memory Therapy

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Medicine, although practiced very well, has its share of bloopers. Medicine is a science that has the best intentions to find a cure to help its patients. Recovered-memory therapy is one those errors that bring back false memories to its patients and makes them believe something that never even happened. Therapists believed that by bringing back those condoned memories, they could help their patients cope with what they were suffering from. Once they were convinced that memories were true and not what they had thought was, it caused confusion on what to believe. There were recalls with such occasions, but the physicians did not like admitting that they were wrong because they knew that they were professionals. They had to alter the way they …show more content…

Examples are innocent people being put in prison and guilty people being set free, as this happens, the law system corrects itself but tries to not make too many correction or the disciplinary side of it will turn soft. As the prosecutor is looking for the truth they believe that if a person confesses they must be guilty, therefore they have found the truth. It is those times that a person is innocent that a prosecutor needs to have the right evidence to let them go, but due to self-justification they feel as if they have done things according to the law. People of the law must see out of their tunnel vision in order to gather the right evidence to prove that what they have at hands is pure evidence. When they get too caught up in their instinct because of experience it is when the most mistakes are made. Self-justification is not supposed to take place in the law, because law should be as unbiased as possible, but yet the temptation bites at the feet of dissonance in those that are looking for the justice. Slowly, yet surely reforms have started to take place to reduce the amount of mistakes in the legal system. The legal system not only doesn’t admit to its fallacies, but it also gives those that they put behind bars without good evidence, no compensation for their …show more content…

In many of these cases, it is impossible to know whom to blame for starting the problem. Either way both can blame one another and are able to prove themselves off to the other by justification that they had the right to do so. If someone accuses another person of being the villain in the story, the “villain” then feels charged with faulty things, and acted upon cruelly. This pattern shifts, one day it is the opposite, the other one it goes back to the usual. Perpetrators look for ways to remove their dissonance, while the victims are caught up on being pitied and looking for their revenge. The dissonance theory could then show that if the victims are able to seek out their revenge and get through with it, the perpetrator wouldn’t feel as guilty of his/her actions from the beginning. In most cases, the perpetrator would have been accused of their fallacies, and the victim empathized, but the authors state that if the perpetrator so happens to be on our side, we will join the bandwagon and defend them in any way possible. It is a constant battle for the perpetrators because they have to fight the people off by making them believe they are not the ones to blame for the mistake. As humans, we have the tendency to blame someone else for our mistakes, or believe that it was an act taken due to their beliefs and morals, we

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