Originally Posted by
MickeyAnMeisce 
Absent Jack Trimpey's personal political philosophy, how does AVRT differ from other behavioral therapies?
Summarized from what Trimpey wrote in the JRR, September - October, 1993, comparing AVRT with REB/REBT:
The logic of AVRT is a recipe for recovery from addiction, not from life. What remains is an abstinent lifestyle, for better or for worse. Addiction is not an irrational idea or a symptom of one. Addiction is an indisputable fact. The charm of AVRT is it's irrationality.
The Big Plan of AVRT is absolutistic, unreasoning, rigid, autocratic, and fanatical. AVRT calls for abstinence - here, now, and forever - and then shows exactly how to commit intellectual violence on the addictive mentality called the Beast. It is a potent dissociative technique based not on reason or disputation, but by declaration.