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Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study (2023)
Journal Article
Poole, R., Cook, C. C. H., Song, R., & Robinson, C. A. (2023). Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study. BJPsych Bulletin, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.66

Aims and method
Calls for the integration of spirituality into psychiatric practice have raised concerns about boundary violations. We sought to develop a method to capture psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries and spirituality, explor... Read More about Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study.

Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice (2023)
Journal Article
Cullinan, R. J., Woods, A., Barber, J. M., & Cook, C. C. (2023). Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice. BJPsych Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.17

This article uses three fictitious case vignettes to raise questions and educate on how clinicians can appropriately approach patients experiencing spiritually significant hallucinations. Religious hallucinations are common but are not pathognomonic... Read More about Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice.

By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J., & Cook, C. C. (2021). By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 7(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.20092

Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind seeks to bring the theories and discoveries of the Cognitive Science of Religion to broader discussions of mental health. In doing so, the authors introduce auditory verbal hallucinations as one example of... Read More about By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind.

The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A., & Cook, C. C. (2021). The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep. Journal for the study of religious experience, 6(1), 45-51

Whilst conducting qualitative studies with both Christians who report hearing supernatural voices and Spiritualists who report ‘clairaudience’, we have encountered numerous instances of what appeared to be hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences being... Read More about The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep.

Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C., Powell, A., Alderson-Day, B., & Woods, A. (2022). Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy. Medical Humanities, 48(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-012021

Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make. The hearing of spiritually significant voices provides a case in point.... Read More about Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy.

The Causes of Human Sexual Orientation (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. (2021). The Causes of Human Sexual Orientation. Theology & Sexuality, 27(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2020.1818541

Research on the causes of human sexual orientation has been marshaled in support of predetermined and opposing theological viewpoints. Whilst acknowledging that there is still much that is not known, the peer reviewed scientific literature clearly sh... Read More about The Causes of Human Sexual Orientation.

Spirituality, Religion & Mental Health: Exploring the Boundaries (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. (online). Spirituality, Religion & Mental Health: Exploring the Boundaries. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2020.1774525

The Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SPSIG) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists was established in 1999 in the historical context of increasing research and clinical interest in a more positive understanding of how psychiatry and... Read More about Spirituality, Religion & Mental Health: Exploring the Boundaries.

Spirituality and mental health (2020)
Journal Article
Kao, L. E., Peteet, J. R., & Cook, C. C. (2020). Spirituality and mental health. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 10(1), 42-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/20440243.2020.1726048

In many contexts, emotional ailments have been considered problems of religious or spiritual origin. Historically, religious groups were often the primary providers of mental health care. This changed over time with advances in medicine and Freud’s w... Read More about Spirituality and mental health.

Science and theology in human sexuality (2018)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. (2018). Science and theology in human sexuality. Theology & Sexuality, 24(3), 183-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2018.1459082

Christian debates about human sexuality are often presented as being concerned primarily with differences regarding authority of scripture. It is proposed here that they might more constructively be understood as debates about science and theology. J... Read More about Science and theology in human sexuality.

Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry: The Impact of Policy (2017)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. (2017). Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry: The Impact of Policy. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 20(6), 589-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2017.1405498

Research and debate on the importance of spirituality and religion in psychiatry has led to a number of national and international policy initiatives, intended to clarify the boundaries of good practice and improve the way in which such matters are m... Read More about Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry: The Impact of Policy.

Measuring mental health in the clinical setting: what is important to service users? The Mini-Service user Recovery Evaluation Scale, (Mini-SeRvE) (2017)
Journal Article
Barber, J. M., Parsons, H., Wilson, C. A., & Cook, C. C. (2017). Measuring mental health in the clinical setting: what is important to service users? The Mini-Service user Recovery Evaluation Scale, (Mini-SeRvE). Journal of Mental Health, 26(6), 530-537. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2017.1340624

Background: Since 2001, a policy of positive mental health recovery has been promoted in the UK, with service user involvement. This has not been easy to implement in the clinical setting. Aims: To develop and validate a brief self-report, service us... Read More about Measuring mental health in the clinical setting: what is important to service users? The Mini-Service user Recovery Evaluation Scale, (Mini-SeRvE).