1993年,一位心理學家蘇珊·史密斯(Susan E. Smith)在一篇第一次在假记忆体综合征的學術會議上發表的論文,把「細胞記憶」跟「倖存者心理學」兩者相關連起來,指出:
body memories are thought to literally be emotional, kinesthetic, or chemical recordings stored at the cellular level and retrievable by returning to or recreating the chemical, emotional, or kinesthetic conditions under which the memory recordings are filed. She wrote in the abstract of the paper that "one of the most commonly used theories to support the ideology of repressed memories or incest and sexual abuse amnesia is body memories." [4]
The belief in these pseudoscientific concepts appears to be related to scientific illiteracy, gullibility, and a lack of critical thinking skills and reasoning abilities in both the mental health community and in society at large.[4]
^Scott O. Lilienfeld SO; Lynn SJ; Lohr JM (编). Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology [臨床心理學的科學與偽科學]. The Guilford Press. 2002. ISBN 1-57230-828-1.