Rational Recovery Systems, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Jack Trimpey, a California-licensed clinical social worker.

Rational Recovery is a commercial trade mark, along with the Addictive Voice Recognition Technique.

The Rational Recovery program is based on the premise that the addict both desires and is capable of permanent, planned abstinence.

However, the Rational Recovery program recognizes that, paradoxically, the addict also wants to continue using.

This ambivalence is the Rational Recovery definition of addiction.

In his book, Rational Recovery, Trimpey calls the addict's addictive voice " the Beast ".

While Rational Recovery and AA promote abstinence, the programs use radically different strategies.

Rational Recovery repeatedly claims that there is no better time to construct a " big plan " to abstain from drinking / using than now, and that AA's idea of " one day at a time " is contradictory to never using again.

That is, Rational Recovery says, AA proposes that if you are never going to drink again, then there isn't a reason to keep track of time.

* Rational Recovery does not regard alcoholism as a disease, but rather a voluntary behavior.

* Rational Recovery discourages adoption of the forever " recovering " drunk persona.

* There are no Rational Recovery recovery groups ( although meetings were held throughout the country during the 1990s ).

Trimpey asserts that some have accused Rational Recovery of being anti-religious.

The Rational Recovery FAQ states:

Rational Recovery claims to remain neutral on the subject of religion and sobriety.

Rational Recovery founder Jack Trimpey explains, "... Rational Recovery is not interested in having people give up any of their religious beliefs ; it's just none of our business what people believe about gods and saints.

Rational Recovery claims that " AVRT has made recovery groups obsolete.

" In 1998, Rational Recovery announced, " The Recovery Group Movement is Over !... Beginning January 1, 1999, all addiction recovery group meetings for Rational Recovery in the United States, Canada, and abroad are hereby canceled and will not be rescheduled ever again, it's just a waste of time and is completely unproductive.

The Rational Model is based on a rationalist philosophy and underlies the Waterfall Model, Systems Development Life Cycle and much of the engineering design literature.

The original members were Borland, IBM, Merant, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and WebGain.

" Rational social management ", he said, " proceeds in a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action and fact-finding about the result of action ". Figure 1: Systems Model of Action-Research ProcessLewin's description of the process of change involves three steps: Unfreezing: Faced with a dilemma or disconfirmation, the individual or group becomes aware of a need to change.

Many games used DOS / 4GW, which was developed by Rational Systems as a subset of DOS / 4G and was distributed with the Watcom C compiler.

In a survey of treatment providers from three separate institutions ( the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Rational Recovery Systems and the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors ) measuring the treatment provider's responses on the Spiritual Belief Scale ( a scale measuring belief in the four spiritual characteristics AA identified by Ernest Kurtz ); the scores were found to explain 41 % of the variance in the treatment provider's responses on the Addiction Belief Scale ( a scale measuring adherence to the disease model or the free-will model addiction ).

Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems Perspectives.

* IQN Rational Mobile Agents and Systems of Agents

* Rational Fasting For Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation, New York: ELPC Inc, 1971.

* Rational Fasting For Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation, California: ELPC Inc, 1965, 1971, 1975.

* Rational Fasting For Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation, California: ELPC Inc, 1926.

" Introduction " in Rational Fasting, New York: ELPC Inc.

" The Soul between Body and Immortality: The 13th Century Debate on the Definition of the Human Rational Soul as Form and Substance ", in: Philosophia: E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 1 / 2012.

This tradition thereafter merged with earlier work of a few clinicians, labeled as Cognitive Therapy ( CT ), developed by Aaron Beck, and Rational Emotive Therapy ( RET ) developed by Albert Ellis.

Fett, " How Civil Wars End: A Rational Choice Approach ," Journal of Conflict Resolution 40, no.

* 1893: Diesel's essay titled Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat-engine to Replace the Steam Engine and Combustion Engines Known Today appeared.

The Rational Model was independently developed by Simon and Pahl and Beitz.

Typical stages consistent with The Rational Model include the following.

The Action-Centric Perspective is a label given to a collection of interrelated concepts, which are antithetical to The Rational Model.

Like the Rational Model, the Action-Centric model sees design as informed by research and knowledge.

However, research and knowledge are brought into the design process through the judgment and common sense of designers – by designers " thinking on their feet " – more than through the predictable and controlled process stipulated by the Rational Model.

One possible criticism is that it is less intuitive than The Rational Model.

Rational development was considered the most important, as essential to philosophical self-awareness and as uniquely human.

Medicine Before Science: The Rational and Learned Doctor from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.

Rational analyses began to replace empiricism in the 20th century, while governmental agencies began their own hydrological research programs.

“ Rational behavior, in economics, means that individuals maximize thier utility function under the constraints they face ( e. g., their budget constraint, limited choices, ...) in pursuit of their self-interest.

' A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice ', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol.

Hypnotism might therefore not inaptly be designated, Rational Mesmerism, in contra-distinction to the Transcendental Mesmerism of the Mesmerists.

Hypnotism might therefore not inaptly be designated, Rational Mesmerism, in contra-distinction to the Transcendental Mesmerism of the Mesmerists.

IBM Rational Purify, BoundsChecker, Valgrind, Insure ++ and memwatch are some of the more popular memory debuggers for C and C ++ programs.

Rational skeptics argue that numbers have no occult significance and cannot by themselves influence a person's life.

Rational people, in other words, may differ somewhat in their degrees of belief, even if they all have the same information.

Rational primes ( i. e. prime elements in Z ) of the form 4k + 3 are Gaussian primes, whereas rational primes of the form 4k + 1 are not.