Awards for Hypnosis Researchers at PPK

The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis is one of the oldest existing hypnosis societies in the United States. Several PPK successes were achieved at the Society’s awards ceremony this year. Zoltan Kekecs and Katalin Varga, both faculty members at the Institute of Psychology, were awarded the Roy M. Dorcus Award for the best clinical hypnosis paper of the year for their publication Guidelines for the Assessment of Efficacy of Clinical Hypnosis Applications. The study, which was co-authored by several international authors alongside the PPK researchers, was published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
The Henry Guze Award for the best hypnosis research paper of the year was granted to Zoltán Kekecs for his paper entitled: Hypnosis Intervention for Sleep Disturbance: Determination of Optimal Dose and Method of Delivery for Postmenopausal Women, which was co-authored by several authors and also published in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
In addition, Zoltán Kekecs received a Presidential Award for his outstanding efforts as SCEH Treasurer.
In 2019, Éva Bányai, Professor Emerita of ELTE PPK, received the Living Human Treasure Award.
Award-winning papers:
- Zoltan Kekecs, Donald Moss, Gary Elkins, Giuseppe De Benedittis, Olafur S. Palsson, Philip D. Shenefelt, Devin B. Terhune, Katalin Varga & Peter J. Whorwell (2022) Guidelines for the Assessment of Efficacy of Clinical Hypnosis Applications, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 70(2), 104-122. 10.1080/00207144.2022.2049446
- Gary Elkins, Julie Otte, Janet S. Carpenter, Lynae Roberts, Lea’ S. Jackson, Zoltan Kekecs, Vicki Patterson & Timothy Z. Keith (2021) Hypnosis Intervention for Sleep Disturbance: Determination of Optimal Dose and Method of Delivery for Postmenopausal Women, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 69(3), 323-345, DOI: 10.1080/00207144.2021.1919520