The Arthur Shapiro Award:
Best Book on Hypnosis  

About the Award

Each year, SCEH selects a recipient for the Society's Arthur Shapiro Award to recognize the best books on hypnosis.
View our list of prize winning books on hypnosis below.

Arthur Shapiro Award Winners

2024

  - Leonard Milling, PhD - Evidence Based Practice in Clinical Hypnosis. American Psychological Association. August 2023.
   - Julie Linden, Giuseppe DeBenedittis, Laurence Sugarman and Katalin Varga - The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis. Routledge. February 2024.

2023 - Gary Elkins, PhD, ABPP, ABPH - Introduction to Clinical Hypnosis: The Basics and Beyond. Mountain Pine Publishing. 2022.

2022 - No award

2021 - Michael Yapko, PhD - Process-Oriented Hypnosis: Focusing on the Forest, Not the Trees, W. W. Norton & Company. 2021.

2020 - Gary Elkins, PhD, ABPP, ABPH and Nicholas Olendzki, PhD - Mindful Hypnotherapy: The Basics for Clinical Practice, Springer Publishing Company.

2019 - Joseph P. Green, PhD and Steven Jay Lynn, PhD - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Hypnosis for Smoking Cessation: A Scientifically Informed Intervention, Wiley-Blackwell November, 2018.

2018 - Michael Yapko, PhD - Taking Hypnosis to the Next Level. Yapko Publications, 2018.

2017 - Gary Elkins, PhD (Editor) - Handbook of Medical and Psychological Hypnosis: Foundations, Applications, and Professional Issues. Springer Publishing Company, 1 edition (July 25, 2016).

2016 - Amir Raz, PhD and Michael Lifshitz (Eds.) - Hypnosis and Meditation: Towards an Integrative Science of Conscious Planes. Oxford University Press, 2016.

2015 - Laurence Sugarman and William Wester II (Eds.) Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents.  Crown House Publishing Limited, Norwalk, CT, 2014.

2014 - Andreas Meyer - Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting.  University of Chicago Press.

2013 - David B. Reid, PsyD - Hypnosis for Behavioral Health: A Guide to Expanding Your Professional Practice. Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (June 20, 2012).

2012 - Michael D. Yapko, PhD - Mindfulness and Hypnosis: The Power of Suggestion to Transform Experience. W.W. Norton & Company (September 26, 2011).

2011 - Jensen, Mark; Patterson, David. Hypnosis for Chronic Pain Management: Therapist Guide. Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (April 5, 2011).

2010 - Lang, Elvira V; Laser, Eleanor. Patient Sedation Without Medication: Rapid Rapport and Quick Hypnotic Techniques: A Resource Guide for Doctors, Nurses, and Technologists. CreateSpace (April 24, 2011).

2009 - Barnier, Amanda; Nash, Michael. The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis: Theory, Research & Practice.  Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (April 1, 2012).

2007 - Daitch, Carolyn. Affect Regulation Tool Box: Practical and Effective Hypnotic Interventions for the Over-Reactive Client.  W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (March 17, 2007).

2006 - Yapko, Michael. Hypnosis and Treating Depression. Application in Clinical Practice. Routledge; 1 edition (May 10, 2006).

2005 -  Barabasz, Arreed; Watkins, John G. Hynotherapeutic Techniques, 2 Edition. Routledge; 2 edition (December 25, 2004).

2004 - Spiegel, David; Spiegel, Herbert. Trance and Treatment - Clinical Uses of Hypnosis, 2nd Edition.  Amer Psychiatric Pub; 2 edition (April 30, 2004).

2003 - Best, M.; Neuhauser, D.; Slavin, L. (2003). Benjamin Franklin: Verification and validation of the scientific process in health care as demonstrated by the "Report of the Royal Commissioner on Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism'. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Trafford Publishing. 

2002 - Yapko, Michael (2001). Treating Depression with Hypnosis: Integrating cognitive-behavioral and strategic approaches. New York NY: Brunner-Routledge.

2001 - Hornyak, L.M. Green, J.P. (2000). Healing from within: The use of hypnosis in women's health care. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 

2000 - Brown, Daniel P.; Scheflin, Alan W.; Hammond D. Corydon (1998). Memory, trauma treatment, and the law. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. 

1999 - Winter, Alison (1998). Mesmerized: Powers of mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago press. 

1998 - Fromm, Erika; Nash, Michael (1997). Psychoanalysis and hypnosis. Madison CT: International Universities Press.

1997 - Lynn, Steven Jay; Rhue, Judith W. (1996). Casebook of clinical hypnosis. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

1996 - Hammond, D. Corydon; Garver, Richard B.; Mutter, Charles B.; Crasilneck, Harold B.; Frischolz, Edward; Gravitz, Melvin A.; Hibler, Neil S.; Olson, Jean; Scheflin, Alan; Spiegel, Herbert; Wester, William (1995). Clinical Hypnosis and memory: Guidelines for clinicians and for forensic hypnosis. Chicago: American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Press. 

1995 - Lynn, Steven Jay; Rhue, Judith W. (1994). Dissociation: Clinical and theoretical perspectives. New York, NY: Guilford Press. 

1994 - Rhue, Judith W.; Lynn, Steven J.; Kirsch, Irving (1993). Handbook of clinical hypnosis. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

1988 - Watkins, John G. (1987). The practice of clinical hypnosis, Vol. I: Hypnotherapeutic techniques. New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc. 

1987 - Brown, Daniel P.; Fromm, Erika (1986). Hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

1986 - Crasilneck, Harold B. ; Hall, James A. (1985). Clinical hypnosis: Principles and applications. (2nd).   Orlando FL: Grune & Stratton.

1985 - Hilgard, Josephine R.; LeBaron, Samuel (1984). Hypnotherapy of pain in children with cancer. Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann. 

1984 - Barber, Joseph; Adrian, Cheri (1983). Psychological approaches to the management of pain. New York NY: Brunner/Mazel.

1983 - Sheehan, Peter W.; McConkey, Kevin M. (1982). Hypnosis and experience: The exploration of phenomena and process. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum. 

1982 - Gardner, Gail G.; Olness, Karen N. (1981). Hypnosis and hypnotherapy with children. New York: Grune & Stratton.

1980 - Kihlstrom, John F.; Evans, F.J. (1979). Functional Disorders of memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

1979 - Frankel, Fred H.; Zamansky, H.S. (1978). Hypnosis at it bicentennial: Selected papers. New York: Plenum Press. (Based on Congress in 1976.)

1978 - Hilgard, Ernest R. (1977). Divided consciousness: Multiple controls in human thought and action. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 

1977 - Frankel, Fred H. (1976). Hypnosis trance as a coping mechanism. New York: Plenum Medical Book Co.

1976

1975 - Unestah, Lars-Eric (1974). Hypnosis and posthypnotic suggestion. S-1.:s.n.

1973 - Fromm, Erika; Shor, Ronald E. (1972). Hypnosis: Research developments and new perspectives. (1st). Chicago: Aldine.

1970 - Hilgard, Josephine R. (1970). Personality and hypnosis: A study of imaginative involvement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

1969 - Klemperer, Edith (1968). Past ego states emerging in hypnoanalysis. Springfield IL: Thomas. 

1968 - Moss, C. Scott (1967). The hypnotic investigation of dreams. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

1967 - Kline, M.V. (1967). Psychodynamics and hypnosis. Springfield, IL. Charles C. Thomas.

1966

1965 - Schneck, Jerome M. (1965). Principles and practice of hypnoanalysis. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. (Abstracted in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1965, 13, 3, 203-205. Reviewed by S.E. Pulver) 

1963 - Kroger, William, S. (1963). Clinical and experimental hypnosis in medicine, dentistry, and psychology. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

1962 - de Moraes Passos, A.C.; Farina, Oscar (1961). Aspectos atuais de hipnologia. Sao Paulo, Brazil: Linograficia Editoria Limitada. (Abstracted in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1962, 4, 279).