Retraction notice to 'Creative novation behaviour therapy as a prophylactic treatment for cancer and coronary heart disease: Part I-Description of treatment' [Behaviour Research and Therapy 29 (1) (1991) 1-16]

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor in Chief following a report by the institute of one of the co-authors, King's College London. Following concerns raised by Dr A.J. Pelosi and Professor D.F. Marks, King's College London organized a committee to analyse data relevant to personality and physical health outcomes and to ascertain (as far as possible) whether this and related publications were safe in terms of presenting scientifically rigorous results relating personality factors with cancer, coronary heart disease, and other outcomes. The report stated that, "The committee did not have access to any data but have carried out an assessment based on the current literature which includes peer reviewed papers and reviews from critics as well as from collaborators. We also identified some attempted replications of the results either from data available on the jointly authored studies or new studies (for example, Amelang, SchmidtRathjens et al., 1996; Amelang 1997)." The Committee concluded that the results and conclusions of these studies are unsafe and recommended retraction. The report in full is available here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/statements/docs/hans-eysenck-enquiry-final-may-2019.pdf. Having reviewed the Committee's report, the Editor in Chief decided to retract the article. The corresponding author is unfortunately deceased but has previously published a rebuttal to critics of his work with R. Grossarth-Maticek (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1449072?seq=1). The second author has objected to the retraction of the paper and has previously rebutted (https://www.krebs-chancen.de/referenzen-und-gutachten/denunziation-englisch) papers by Dr A. J. Pelosi (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105318822045) and Professor D. F. Marks (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105318820931) published in the Journal of Health Psychology outlining concerns and asking for an investigation into the data by H.J. Eysenck and R. Grossarth-Maticek.