Allie, Google for the Rational Recovery website:
It's a busy looking page, but there's this "crash course" he has there that outlines the technique.
The book I read is: "Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction" (1996). I just ordered it from half.com (used) to read it again.
The one promoted on the site is more recent, called "The Art of AVRT" but from what I've heard, it's not as good as the previous one, and includes a lot of his conservative political personal views.
There's an ongoing thread that starts here:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...iscussion.html started by "Terminally Unique" who's no longer on the Forum (don't know why though). This guy really knows it well and there have been very good posts there.
It cuts to the chase regarding being committed to abstinence and being empowered in dealing with cravings. No-nonsense to be sure.
I don't agree with his harsh opposition to AA as obviously many people have benefitted very much from it, but I do like his approach.