Originally Posted by
GerandTwine 
I see it as a matter of he is not so wedded to a theory of counseling, that he can’t set it aside for a method that will allow him to spend only seconds per year, instead of wrangling with choice after choice after choice down the road as his life changes and just maybe it will be perfectly rational to try drinking again.
IMO the precise opposite is true. Once you have successfully disputed your drinking thought patterns then that's job done, at least if and until you choose change your thinking at a later date, which of course you will always have the capacity to do.
This compares to adopting the model of an eternal Beast with it's eternal bark which, to paraphrase, you will have to "wrangle with day after day after day down the road. "