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 | | Induced After-Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and Trauma by Allan L Botkin, R. Craig Hogan, Raymond A. Moody ISBN-10: 9781571744234 ISBN-10: 1-57174-423-1 ISBN-13: 9781571744234 ISBN-13: 978-1-57174-423-4 Paperback 2005-08-17 Hampton Roads Publishing Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Induced After-Death Communication is a new therapy that has helped thousands of patients permanently assuage their grief by allowing them private communication with their departed loved ones. Botkin, a clinical psychologist, created the therapy while counseling Vietnam vets in his work at a North Chicago VA hospital. Induced After-Death Communication presents the story of how Botkin initially made his discovery and includes 84 cases of patients who have experienced the therapy’s profound healing effects. After more than two decades as a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Botkin founded the Center for Grief and Traumatic Loss. | ||
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Teases Without Delivering Very misleading title since the author says on Page XVIII that the procedure requires EMDR "that can be applied only by a licensed psychotherapist with EMDR training." The book comsists of little more than the author's war stories. In fact the procedure will work, if it works at all, using tapping of accupressure points and eye movements described in Lambrou and Pratt's "Instant Emotional Healing" and numerous other books on using accupressure to resolve emotional problems. This is a book about one approach to the therapy of grief and only that. | ||
Very useful book. I bought this book shortly after I lost my husband to sudden death two months ago. I found the book's methods very useful and even though ideally the method should be undertaken with a therapist, the basic concept which is one of establishing a mental communication with the deceased and expressing one's feelings in words can be done in much simpler ways as well. The important thing is to let one's mind totally open to anything that may come up...and to go with the flow of emotions and gut feelings, so as to manage to 'talk to' our dear ones and settle 'unfinished business' that death, especially sudden ones, may have left behind and which are the most tormenting feelings a bereaved person may experience. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who lost a loved one and who wants to find peace. | ||
A fine book for professional and lay-person alike in the areas of grief, trauma, sadness, and healing As a health care practitioner and trained IADC therapist, I highly recommend Dr. Botkin's book. It is a sensitive, honest, thorough, and well-researched account of his work with induced after death communications with his clients.I have great respect for his work as I have had the ongoing privilege of experiencing its truth and beauty. I use this book as a resource and I offer it to clients to give them hope and understanding as they move through their deep grief, sadness, and healing. I found it to be one of those few books that is written by a mental health professional who writes, respectfully, with the lay-person in mind and heart. | ||
Talk to the Dead? Maybe We Can After All....... I learned of this book from some colleagues and my own curiosity led me to purchase and read it. Dr. Botkin weaves his personal story of discovering the Induced After Death Communication together with his clinical and theoretical understanding of these experiences. He shares fascinating case histories as he describes in detail these phenomena that are apparently far more common than one would think. | ||
Good News Shared As a psychotherapist for nearly thirty years, Induced After-Death Communication was riveting to me. I have had many clients who sought relief from grief, anger, or guilt towards a deceased friend or family member who tried to get through these overarching emotions with cognitive tools alone. The work was slow and they could get tired of plowing the same ground over and over, and often give up in the name of "acceptance". "Empty-chair" work, where they would talk to and for the deceased worked better, but they tended to snap back to old feelings after remembering, "It was just my imagination." Several times, my clients had spontaneous realizations that they must have had an ADC while doing these sessions, and these were very healing. But getting them to these moments was not something you could count on. Something more was needed. After reading Botkin/Hogan's book, I determined to get this training, and did. In the years since then I have found IADC to be not only effective and reliable, but it does its work in a short period of time. As a therapist, what more could you ask for? I think that reading this book can give anyone who faces grief (and that's all of us) not only a new means of getting through grief (which is the healing process), but also a new motive to do so. When you understand that processing the sadness first is a means of "going-on", not "getting-over", it changes the whole set up for paying attention to grief at all. That's really good news for everyone. | ||