Induced After Death Communication: A Miraculous Therapy for Grief and Loss Paperback – May 1, 2014

Having lost all the people I loved who also loved me, this book and the therapy described offers me hope. Now to find a therapist--sooner rather than later!

When one first reads about the subject of NDEs (Near Death Experiences), spontaneous ADCs (After Death Communications), it is easy to be skeptical, especially in light of the dreck that has flooded the digital book market in recent years, of any "expert's" evidence that points toward life after life. I have been surveying clinical psychology bookshelves for a number of years since reading Dr. Raymond Moody's plea for honest, rigorous, scientific research into the way the human mind works, and in particular, the way it processes trauma, grief, and loss, and NDEs (Near Death Experiences) in his book "Life After Life" in 1985. At last, a respected and well-educated clinical psychologist, Dr. Allan Botkin in his efforts to initiate a reliable and safe way to treat the men and women residents of the PTSD ward of the VA Hospital in Chicago, was willing to free himself from the paradigm prison of what was considered an acceptable provable practice, when in his search for better treatments for his patients, he stumbled upon a new way of treating them, that has all the hallmarks of a miracle!He began by working with a relatively new method of helping those with PTSD, called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR is a way of reprogramming an awake patient's rapid eye movements. The long-term agony of anger, guilt, fear, grief, and loss that plague sufferers of PTSD, is their inability to normally process and accommodate, then mentally and spiritually move beyond the traumatic event, and back to a full and productive life. They have become psychologically "stuck" at the moment of the event, constantly replaying it in their mind's senses, consumed with pain, sadness, rage, and a host of paralyzing and crippling emotions. When one of Dr. Botkin's patients spontaneously transitioned through a course of EMDR therapy to receive a profound sensation of having communicated with the deceased victim of his rage during the Viet Nam war, and found forgiveness and peace. Dr. Botkin set about trying to duplicate the experience with other patients. The method, honed and adapted, has proved over the past 30+ years to achieve permanent and reliable relief.When used properly, by licensed clinical therapists, the method has shown itself to be curative in about 75% of those with whom it is used.Whether one believes in God or a higher power or not, irrespective of any and all religious persuasions, when the patients find themselves able to communicate freely with the spirits of deceased loved ones or even victims of their anger and/or abuse, the experience proves to be 100% positive and life affirming.What happens in the brain, and why and how achieving an IADC works is not known. Genuine scientific research into this phenomenon is growing and gaining a more wide-spread willingness to at least consider it among the scientific community.I cannot recommend more highly this beautifully-written, well thought out, fully accessible, and carefully presented book. The many case-studies he relates are incredibly touching. I urge anyone with any degree of interest in the subject of communicating with those who have died to read this book. Moreover, I especially urge the skeptics to take the opportunity to read it. As Dr. Botkin points out so well, it doesn't matter how or why it works, or if it is paranormal or an entirely natural built-in mental process we all possess - SO WHAT? There has to date been no "downside" to this treatment, and being one familiar with the devastating effects of PTSD, I will be keeping my eyes, ears, mind and heart open to the wonderful possibilities inherent in propagating the miracle of the IADC.Thank you, Dr. Botkin!

I first read Dr. Botkin's book in 2006. It spoke to the need I had noticed consistently since I began my counseling career in 1975 that people's unresolved grief was THE major obstacle that prevented them from fulfilling their potential, and appreciating their lives. People don't want to "put the past behind them" as they are often told to do when there is a death. They instinctively hold on to their agonized longing for the loved one because it's the last visceral connection they have with them. If that's where they think their loved one is, that's where they want to be. But, if they stay in the past, then life goes on without them, they can't attend to other relationships, or maybe they have to relieve that terrible pain with substance abuse. It seems to be a "catch-22".With Botkin's discovery, the whole context for grieving is changed. It is no longer a process of trying to recover from the absence of a relationship that was life itself to people in many cases. It is by the accelerated processing of the sadness of the loss through a non-invasive, psychophysical therapy technique that the experience of reconnection with the loved one is discovered. People can have great losses, but they can go on to have joy and involvement with the world again and FEEL their loved one with them while they do. The sadness that may have been seen as a precious wound can now be released in favor of experiencing a renewed connection with the person who was so treasured.After reading this book back in 2006, I learned Dr. Botkin's technique from him personally, and have been practicing it and teaching it to other therapists myself. It quite literally is, as one widow told me "a game changer." It certainly has been for me, and for the many, many grieving clients I have been able to help since I first read it.The book itself is of interest to people who may not know about psychophysical therapies, such as EMDR and IADC, but it is also a story of hope and wonder, open to all, that inspires gratitude for the way that consciousness and love are so inextricably bound together that a simple technique, carefully done, reveals their continued connection, even after death.

The account of IADC communication is very methodical and well done. Probably deserves 5stars but some of it was a little repetitive and I would have liked a discussion of the technique outside of the confines of grief therapy, vital though that is. Don’t let my minor issues deter you from reading this very important book.

This is a fascinating, easy-to-read book which relays the experiences of the author's patients whom he helped to contact dead loved ones. The author takes a neutral view as to whether actual contact with dead people is occurring or there is some other possible explanation. He makes the point that as a therapy for relieving terrible grief, it works, and that's what counts.The content of this book is remarkable: story after story of what happened in what appears to be afterlife communication. The author includes a number of contacts in which the patients were able to verify for themselves through the information given that they were truly contacted by their loved. The author found that in virtually all cases, the patients were healed of their terrible grief. The author has a PhD in psychologists. Other therapists have had similar successes when using the author's techniques.The author includes a detailed description of his technique and some information about research studies on the effectiveness of the technique (which are in line with the author's claims).

Omg, what a discovery!

Cet ouvrage, qui parle d'une thérapie radicale pour soigner et guèrir des patients victimes de traumatismes, est innovant et iconoclaste à la fois. Innovant, car, variante de la thérapie Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, découverte par hasard par la psychologue américaine Shapiro (cf. son ouvrage des yeux pour guèrir paru en français en 2014) et utilisé de manière extensive au départ auprès de vétérans du Vietnam.Iconoclaste, car mettant en scène des dialogues entre patients et personnes décédées, phénomènes qui présentent de nombreuses analogies avec les NDE par exemple. Gageons que psychiatres et psychologues, notamment francophones, adhérant encore à la psychanalyse freudienne, voire lacanienne, et dont certains pensent encore guèrir la schizophrénie par la divan, crieront au scandale et la superstition.Mais le découvreur de cette thérapie est prudent et pragmatique. Il met l'accent sur l'efficacité de la thérapie et ne se risque pas à des considérations métaphysique.Certainement une des lectures les plus innovantes de ces derniers mois, même si l'ouvrage est quelque peu répétitif.

Fascinating serious book by professional therapist.If you believe “Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped into the next room" then this book shows us there is a way to put our head round the door and reassure ourselves that our loved ones are still there in the next room - well and happy and wiser.

A new book on inmortality? Another one?Yes, but not. This book has a very important quality: the author is a man of science, a psychologist with a broad experience in the treatment of "war neurosis" in a big Veteran Hospital,and one day, when using a method thinked up by another psychologist with the goal of getting relief of psychical suffering, he encountered his "Serendip"way, and suddently the patient he was treating "saw" die girl-now a beautiful young woman-who died in his arms twenty years before.Inmediately, he felt himself very happy, and he knew with absolute certainty that inmortality exist, that the girl was alive and happy- And his neurosis vanished for ever.And I must say now, that the author's attitude is very honest and very clear. He declares that he has no idea about what happens. Imagination? Can be. Self suggestion? Can be. Really life after death? Can be. He accept without dogmatism any hypothesis. And meanwhile he goes on with his work with neurosis patients, he used the same method than that with the first one, and he got 85% of success!! No explanation, but, indeed, facts.I recommend the book to all people suffering because the lost of a beloved one, as was my own case. I felt comforted with its reading

Senza entrare in merito al dibattito sulla continuità della coscienza dopo la morte, l'autore, uno psicologo fa una sorprendente scoperta, attraverso i l'applicazione della EMDR (Eye Movement Desensibilization Processing) per curare i traumi, sui veterani e reduci di guerri del Vietnam. La maggior parte dei traumi riguarda le morti violenti, inaspettate, ed uccisioni nel corso della guerra. Una volta fatta la desensibilizzazione del trauma, alla fine della seduta, questi fanno un incontro spontaneo con lo spirito del deceduto lasciando loro un senso di pace e di reconciliazione e contribuendo così alla loro guarigione. Scritto in amniera semplice e coinvolgente l'autore ripporta numerosi casi clinici così come una sua interessante integrazione del metodo EMDR per indurre questi stati particolari di coscienza. Un contributo prezioso all'esplorazione della nostra multidimensionalità e anche alla percezione di dimensioni altre.