After-death communications are communications that either are believed to or appear to have been received from a person who has died.

Precise definitions of ADCs vary. According to Bill and Judith Guggenheim, an ADC occurs when a person is "contacted directly and spontaneously by a deceased family member or friend, without the use of psychic

Psychic

A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...

s, medium

Mediumship

Mediumship is described as a form of communication with spirits. It is a practice in religious beliefs such as Spiritualism, Spiritism, Espiritismo, Candomblé, Voodoo and Umbanda.- Concept :...

s, ritual

Ritual

A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers....

s, or devices of any kind" .

Psychologist Allan Botkin uses the term induced after-death communication

Induced after-death communication

Induced After-Death Communication is a therapeutic technique based on EMDR for helping the bereaved to process and overcome suffering for the death of a loved one...

IADC

IADC

The abbreviation IADC may stand for:*Induced after-death communication*Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee*Inter-American Defense College*Inter-American Democratic Charter*International Advanced Database Conference...

for his practice of inducing perceived reconnections with key people for grief therapy.

Prevalence of ADCs

"It's estimated that 50-100 million Americans - 20-40% of the population of the United States - have had one or more ADC experiences" .