Originally Posted by
SDLY 
and i love that this is debate based on science...
Although the structural model is most likely scientifically sound in principle, and others have subsequently 'discovered' its main premise, AVRT is not really based on science. It is based on the experience of the self-recovered population and people that Trimpey has worked with. Trimpey has called AVRT a phenomenological method, meaning that it just copies reality.
Originally Posted by Jack Trimpey
AVRT is not based upon any science at all, nor is it part of any psychological theory...
AVRT is an art — a simple thinking skill with tools to help you arrange your mental affairs in a way that is very pleasing and satisfying to you and to others you care about...
Addiction recovery is a fight for survival, and AVRT is the art of all-out war applied to mental combat, based on ages-old wisdom and principles.
From The Art of AVRT (Pg 18)
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