ABSTRACT
This chapter describes 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.
