Motivational Learning (MI) is found to be an effective treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUD). It aims to increase motivation using two therapeutic strategies or active ingredients: relational and one-directional. The focus of the study was to analyze the MI's therapeutic strategy by utilizing a dismantling design. The 139 subjects were randomly given a condition: MI, relational MI, spirit-only MI (SOMI), or a non-therapy control (NTC) condition. These conditions went on for eight weeks. The subjects who had MI or SOMI had four sessions of treatment over those eight weeks. It had been found that all of the participants had decreased their alcohol consumption by week eight, though this was seen amongst all of the conditions. The original hypothesis would not be supported, highlighting how motivation would not weaken the effects that each condition had on the disorders.