Originally Posted by
Auvers 
I just wondered if there was a basis in human development psychology of the AVRT model?
There may be parallels, but AVRT is "street-wise" recovery, a throwback to the old days before psychology ever existed as a discipline, and before psychologists ever got into the recovery game. The basis for AVRT is the self-recovered population itself, and Trimpey has referred to AVRT as something he "essentially picked up off the street".
Originally Posted by Jack Trimpey
Although I discovered and named the Addictive Voice Recognition Technique, or AVRT, I did not invent it, nor did I synthesize it from existing theories and practices in the fields of psychology or addiction treatment. AVRT was taught to me in a very direct way by the hundreds of clients who have come through the program.
Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction, Pg. 14 ("Origins of AVRT").