The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH), the longest-standing professional organization in hypnosis research, awarded Kekecs Zoltán and Yeganeh Farahzadi for their scientific work.

On September 10, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH), which focuses on clinical and experimental hypnosis, held its annual awards ceremony online. The event recognizes outstanding achievements in hypnosis research: results in clinical hypnosis, education and training, hypnosis research and publication, as well as volunteer work supporting the organization’s mission.

At the event, several members of ELTE PPK’s Behavioral Medicine and Research Integrity Research Group were honored with awards. The research group investigates the effectiveness of various psychological interventions in medicine, focusing on hypnosis and other suggestive techniques.

Zoltán Kekecs, university assistant professor and head of the research group, received the society’s highest honor: the Bernard Raginski Award for his leadership in clinical hypnosis. Yeganeh Farahzadi, a doctoral candidate, was awarded the Crasilneck Award—the prize for the best scientific presentation by students or young researchers—for her talk titled “Predicting Hypnotic Depth using Transfer Learning” presented at the SCEH annual conference.