Research Program / Claims / illness-healing-4

Illness must be treated primarily by changing basic thinking habits; otherwise, the problem will recur in different forms.

疾病必须主要通过改变基本的思维习惯来治疗，否则问题会以不同形式反复出现。

Concept illness and healing · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contradicted

This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.

Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Conduct a multicenter RCT of approximately 4,000 to 6,000 coronary heart disease patients, all receiving guideline-based treatment; randomly assign to core-belief CBT, time-matched supportive intervention, or usual rehabilitation, with 6 to 12 months of intervention and 5-year follow-up. Primary endpoints are blinded-adjudicated cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and stroke; repeatedly measure core beliefs, adherence, exercise, and depression to distinguish cognitive changes from behavioral pathways. Use event-driven power design based on expected event rates. This trial can judge added benefit, but a positive result alone cannot prove CBT is a necessary condition for cure.
Suggested paper title
Core-Belief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Five-Year Cardiovascular Events: A Multicenter Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
If the necessity version holds, it would overturn the proposition that 'treatment targeting biological causes can achieve durable remission without changing basic thinking habits.'
Candidate labs / funders
James A. Blumenthal——行为心脏病学与心脏康复研究; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute——心血管临床研究资助机构; Christopher Eccleston——University of Bath，Centre for Pain Research
Specificity of Seth's formulation
CBT acknowledges that cognition affects distress, coping, and behavior but does not presuppose that all illness must be cured through cognitive change; 'recurrence in different forms otherwise' is an additional prediction that requires predefining which new diseases count as recurrence and the observation window.
Note
The full universal necessity claim is rated contradicted; narrowed to 'can CBT for coronary heart disease additionally reduce hard endpoints' it is contested. Ellis's 1962 REBT theoretical work cannot serve as clinical evidence for five-year cardiovascular outcomes.
Evidence (3, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim illness-healing-4, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/illness-healing-4