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SCEH Annual Awards Celebration (live online)
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 10AM - 12 Noon ET

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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, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

Nomination Deadline:  August 1, 2025

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

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View lists of past award winners:

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

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