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Update: Read a list of this year's winners.

Awards Program

The Society's Awards Program honors the achievements of those who have made significant contributions to the field of hypnosis.

Call for Award Nominations: A formal Call for Award Nominations is issued to members in the spring each year.

Award Nominations Eligibility Period: July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

Nomination Deadline:  August 1, 2026

SCEH Awards include:

  • Crasilneck Award – for the best first paper presented by a graduate student/young scientist presenting at a SCEH meeting

  • Stanley Krippner Award – for efforts supporting the field of hypnosis by students or early career professional (since 2018)

  • Hilgard Award – for the best theoretical paper on hypnosis

  • Henry Guze Award – for the best research paper on hypnosis (since 1970)

  • Roy M. Dorcus Award – for the best paper in clinical hypnosis (since 1971)

  • Reviewer of the Year – for best International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis reviewer

  • Shirley Schneck Award – to a physician who has made significant contributions to the development of medical hypnosis

  • The Erika Fromm Award – for excellence in teaching (since 1999)

  • The Arthur Shapiro Award – for the best book on hypnosis (since 1970)

  • Bernard Raginski Award – the Society's highest award, for leadership in the field of clinical hypnosis (Since 1960)
  • The Presidential Award – for outstanding contributions to scientific and professional hypnosis and for outstanding work on behalf of the Society

  • Living Treasure Award -- for lifelong and enduring contributions to the field of hypnosis


View a complete lists of past award winners:

2025 winners
2024 winners
2023 winners
2022 winners
2021 winners
2020 winners
2019 winners

 

 

Awards Highlights

 

Bernard Raginski Award Recipients

– the Society's highest award, for leadership in the field of clinical hypnosis (Since 1960)

 

2025 - Zoltan Kekecs, PhD
2024 - Ciara Christensen, PhD
2023 - no winner
2022 - Barbara McCann, PhD
2021 - Donald Moss, PhD,
2020 - Janna Henning, PsyD
2019 - no award
2018 - David Spiegel, MD
2017 - Donald Moss, PhD
2016 - Gary Elkins, PhD

 


Living Treasure Award Recipients

 - for lifelong and enduring contributions to the field of hypnosis 

 

2024 - David Spiegel, MD; Michael Yapko, PhD
2023 - Don Moss, PhD; Eric Wilmarth, PhD; Elvira Lang, MD
2022 - Eleanor Laser, PhD; Steven Kahn, PhD; Richard Kluft, MD; David Spiegel, MD; Karen Olness, MD; Arreed Barabasz, EdD, PhD, ABPP
2021 - no award
2020 - no award
2019 - Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD; Eva Banyai, PhD; Irving Kirsch, PhD
2018 - no award
2017 - no award
2016 - no award

 

 

 

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