Psychotherapists today are consistently helping grieving people experience a reconnection with someone who has passed away, resulting in healing deep sadness associated with grief. The method of inducing this experience, called "induced after-death communication" or IADC®, was discovered in 1995 by Allan L. Botkin, Psy.D. Consistent, robust clinical observations by a growing number of IADC® trained therapists across a broad variety of clients indicate that IADC® heals the deep sadness that is associated with death of a friend or loved one, and the results appear to hold up very well over time. Most people believe their experiential reconnection is real, but they do not have to believe in the authenticity of the experience to benefit from its profound healing effects. The method uses EMDR, but in a quite different way from standard EMDR.

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More IADC links:

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https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/induced-after-death-communication-iadc-therapy

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Botkin provides some cases in which information given by the communicator is later verified as accurate.

For instance, he cites at length a magazine article written by a cognitive neuroscientist about an IADC experience during which, among other things, she saw her deceased friend playing with a dog that apparently belonged to his (living) sister. She had not been aware at this time that the sister owned a dog. When she checked, she learned this that was the case, and that the dog was the breed she saw in her vision.

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A second case involved a patient who encountered his deceased adoptive father, and heard him say, ‘Forgive me for being so cold when we adopted you’. He was puzzled by this, as he could only remember his father being warm and loving. His mother later told him his father had had difficulty accepting the newly-adopted baby and refused at first to hold it, a situation that resolved after a few months.

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In a third case, the patient hoped his deceased friend would have a message for his widow, and was given an image of two hands clasping. This meant nothing to him, but was immediately recognized by the widow, who wept and said that the night before she had dreamed of holding hands with her late husband.

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Botkin further describes the case of a man who was consumed by guilt for 25 years from having accidentally killed a young family of three in a car crash. During his experience the family appeared, telling him they were happy in their present state and that they forgave him. He observed that the twelve-year-old daughter had short red hair and freckles, and that the father was delighted to be able at last to move freely. Until this time the patient had known nothing about the family, and had avoided even looking at photographs of them. Now he learned that the daughter’s appearance in his vision matched the reality, and that the father had been confined to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis.

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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351069120-59/induced-death-communication-c%C3%A9sar-valdez-john-jordan-allan-botkin

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A new and cutting edge brain-based treatment for grief that is called induced after-death communication, or IADC. And it does raise intriguing metaphysical questions about whether there is some kind of life after death and whether that needs to be a focus of the grief therapy. Therefore, if the potential client is experiencing depression in addition to grief, it is important that the depression be treated prior to IADC. Unlike EMDR, which asks the client to recall a traumatic memory or image, IADC directly asks the client to focus on the core emotional issue in grief-namely sadness-while receiving the bilateral stimulation. In clinical experience, the authors have found that when they address and successfully process this core sadness with accelerated brain processing, other attendant issues, such as anger, guilt and irrational cognitions, typically are also greatly diminished.

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