SCEH Awards

Each year at the Annual Awards Banquet, SCEH recognizes leaders in the field of hypnosis.  The Awards include:

1. The Henry Guze Award – for the best research paper on hypnosis (since 1970)
2. The Roy M. Dorcus Award – for the best paper in clinical hypnosis (since 1971)
3. The Bernard Raginski Award – for leadership in the field of clinical hypnosis (Since 1960)
4. The Shirley Schneck Award – to a physician who has made significant contributions to the development of medical hypnosis
5. The Arthur Shapiro Award – for the best book on hypnosis (since 1970)
6. The Crasilneck Award – for the best first paper presented by a graduate student or young scientist at a SCEH meeting
7. The Hilgard Award  - for the best theoretical paper on hypnosis
8. The Erika Fromm Award   - for excellence in teaching (established 1999)
9. The Presidential Award – for outstanding contributions to scientific and professional hypnosis and for outstanding work on behalf of the Society

2010 Award Recipients

• Henry Guze Award
  • Erik Z. Woody, PhD

• Roy M. Dorcus Award

  • Arreed Barabasz, PhD – for “Hypnotherapeutic Techniques”
  • John C. Watkins, PhD – for “Advanced Hypnotherapy: Hypnodynamic Techniques”

• Bernard B. Raginski Award

  • Tom Nagy, PhD

• Shirley Schneck Award

  • Stephen G. Pauker, MD

• Arthur Shapiro Award for the book  Patient Sedation Without Medication: Rapid Rapport and Quick Hypnotic Techniques A Resource Guide for Doctors, Nurses, and Technologists

  • Elvira V. Lang, MD
  • Eleanor Laser, PhD

• Crasilneck Award

  • Devin Terhune, PhD , for the paper entitled “Dissociative tendencies and heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility”

• Hilgard Award for “Affect and hypnosis: On paying friendly attention to disturbing thoughts.” In the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2009

  • Donald L. Nathanson, MD

• Erika Fromm Award

  • Dabney M. Ewin, MD

• Presidential Awards

  • Marilee Snyder, MSW, DCSW
  • George Glaser, MSW
  • Carol Low, PsyD