Originally Posted by
daredevil 
That's what REBT is: a theory of counseling. It wasn't designed for addiction recovery, although it can be the foundation of a recovery modality. Hence, poking holes in disputation as it relates to silencing the AV is a sophomoric endeavor that results in circular, ineffectual reasoning that neither benefits adherents nor detractors.
Jack Trimpey is a trained RET/REBT therapist, and it was he who first attempted to apply REBT to addiction recovery. This is not surprising, since he was simply working with the theory of counseling which he was already familiar with, and with the knowledge he had at the time.
This application is most apparent in his first publication,
The Small Book, which SMART recovery still uses, and which Rational Recovery no longer recommends as their approach to recovery, except as reading for historical purposes.
Trimpey later saw, as AVRT came to fruition from what he was learning, that RET/REBT was incongruent with the paradigm. This was a large part of the reason for the split between SMART and Rational Recovery. They are simply not using the same methods.
The Big Plan is a chosen irrationality, and through the lens of AVRT, any further disputation of the Addictive Voice beyond the Big Plan is essentially a negotiation with the Beast on the terms and conditions under which one will abstain.
I covered much of this in a previous thread: