Breakthrough

I am convinced that Dr. Allan Botkin's book, Induced After Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and Trauma, will someday be regarded as the most important book ever written on the afterlife. His book offers much more than a collection of afterlife experiences, or the usual pro or con viewpoint of the available evidence. Like Galileo's telescope, Botkin's IADC provides us with the means to scientifically peer into a realm that has for many centuries remained elusive and mysterious. This discovery will do much to eventually resolve, once and for all, the longstanding and ongoing debate between afterlife "believers" and "skeptics". Although Dr. Botkin maintains his focus on the profound healing associated with IADC experiences, the broader implications of his work are very clear

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IADC Therapy is Healing Thousands

Induced After Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing and Trauma, written by Dr. Allan Botkin, Psy.D, scientifically presents the discovery of a controversial new treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, insistent grief, and trauma. Although the title begs for a lengthy and raucous discourse on the after-life, mysticism, the paranormal, or just the blatantly spooky, it is in fact, an in-depth study of a new healing process discovered by Dr. Botkin. He invites you to leave your preconceptions, fears, and judgments at the door as he takes you into the lives and healing therapy of his patients.

Induced After Death Communication (IADC) is a therapeutic healing technique that requires the use of EMDR therapy, a proven tool for therapists employed to reduce the intensity of intrusive memories. While using EMDR, Dr. Botkin discovered IADC as he explored new ways to relieve war veterans of the life-altering pain associated with their horrifying experiences in the field. As a result, most but not all of the case studies in this book are war veterans and male. All are from diverse professional, experiential, and religious backgrounds. In 3000 plus real cases, occurring in the therapist's office, 98% of the vets in the hospital experienced an IADC, a robust number.

Remarkably in case after case, patients insist that their experiences communicating with a deceased loved one or enemy soldiers killed in battle are real and not dreams or hallucinations.

The universality of these experiences is impressive. Across the board, IADC therapy is shown to resolve feelings of intense grief, guilt, anger, and sadness, replacing them with contentment, happiness, and a sense that the deceased are well and at peace. In addition, Dr. Botkin's research shows that the effects hold up over time. Some readers say, "Dr. Botkin's book presents too many case studies," however, that may be the best thing this book has to offer the skeptics.

Induced After Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing and Trauma is structured like a textbook, gently written and conversational in tone. It is a frank scientific discussion -- objective, non-judgmental, and compassionate. While it confronts our individual notions about death and dying, Dr. Botkin does a superb job of easing the reader out of that old uniform, and to hang it in the closet for a while. His research shows that personal beliefs have no effect on outcome and are considered, irrelevant.

Dr. Botkin fully understands what he is up against professionally and socially. He clearly states late in the book, " If there is no afterlife, which would mean that IADC's are pure hallucination, then perhaps our brains did evolve a hidden healing savant that reveals itself at times of great personal need such as when we approach death or suffer the death of a loved one. If the healing savant exists, then all of us have the capacity to heal." For Botkin this discovery constitutes a major breakthrough, one that should be fully explored. To him IADC is within the realm of possibility. He has put his skepticism aside for the sake of healing and hopes others will do the same.

Allan Botkin, Psy. D. is a psychotherapist, expert in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and grief, and Director of the Center for Grief and Traumatic Loss, LLC.

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Wonderful book, Wonderful treatment

I recommend this book to every therapist who wishes to have a method of treatment that can have a profound impact on clients suffering the pain, distress and sadness of grief-related trauma, as well as to the lay person who wishes to explore a remarkably effective approach to healing.
"Induced After-Death Communication" (IADC) refers to a procedure developed by Dr. Allan Botkin whereby a connection between the client and a deceased person is intentionally induced. It is similar to an "after-death communication" except that, in the latter case, the event occurs spontaneously. Both phenomena involve any one or a combination of the senses, and both contain the same types of characteristics. IADC uses elements of EMDR, a therapeutic technique developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro involving the processing of traumatic memories through bilateral stimulation. Dr. Botkin modified the protocol, however, to serve IADC's special goals.
Carefully crafted, the book recounts the experiences of combat veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as they reconnected with their fellow deceased soldiers or with the "enemies" they have killed. He includes cases from a wide range of other individuals who reconnected with people with whom they were in various forms of relationship--loving or troubling--before their deaths. The nature of the encounters was unexpected and surprising. According to Dr. Botkin, no matter what the quality of relationship before the death, the effect on the patient was always positive and healing. He reports successful inductions in 98% percent of those on the PTSD unit where he "discovered" the technique and upwards of 70% of others whom he has treated. Among the variety of experiences described were direct messages for the subject, and sometimes, in addition, messages that were to be conveyed by the subject to others. These messages were both comforting and practical, often revealing details apparently unknown to the patient prior to the induction. In all cases, the patients experienced the deceased as "whole, vital and healthy". Without exception, a sense of love and forgiveness accompanied the reconnection. One's beliefs, religious or otherwise, seemed to have no impact on the outcome. A receptive mind, one willing to let whatever happens happen, was all that was necessary.
Having a scientific sensibility and education, and many years of professional experience in the cognitive and behavioral sciences, Dr. Botkin explores various theories in an effort to explain the phenomena that occur in this process, offering both scientific and spiritual rationales. He concludes that the brain may possess a hidden capability for healing that "supersedes the person's normal perceptual framework, diagnoses the person's needs, views life and the traumatic events from another perspective, reorients perceptions without influence from the therapist or the person's own consciousness, and sends the mind on its way, blissfully, miraculously, and irreversibly healed."
Based on the excellent results I've experienced in applying Dr. Botkin's model with my own clients, I can highly recommend this ground-breaking treatment in the healing of the trauma and sadness that is associated with loss through death.


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