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The lived experience of dementia: developing a contextual theology (2015)
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Cook, C. C. (2016). The lived experience of dementia: developing a contextual theology. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, 28(1-2), 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2015.1046631

A variety of themes are explored as the basis for developing a contextual theology of dementia. These include impairment, loss, dislocation, isolation, decline, and death. These themes represent immanent human concerns with various kinds of experienc... Read More about The lived experience of dementia: developing a contextual theology.

Religious psychopathology: The prevalence of religious content of delusions and hallucinations in mental disorder (2015)
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Cook, C. C. (2015). Religious psychopathology: The prevalence of religious content of delusions and hallucinations in mental disorder. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 61(4), 404-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764015573089

Background: Religious themes are commonly encountered in delusions and hallucinations associated with major mental disorders, and the form and content of presentation are significant in relation to both diagnosis and management. Aims: This study aime... Read More about Religious psychopathology: The prevalence of religious content of delusions and hallucinations in mental disorder.

God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God (2015)
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Dein, S., & Cook, C. (2015). God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 18(2), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2014.1002761

The agentive aspects of communicative religious experiences remain somewhat neglected in the social sciences literature. There is a need for phenomenological descriptions of these experiences and the ways in which they differ from culturally defined... Read More about God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God.

Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice (2015)
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Cook, C. C. (2015). Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice. BJPsych Advances, 21(1), 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.114.013276

Spirituality and religion have assumed importance in psychiatric practice in recent years because of both a growing evidence base and the desire of patients that such matters should be better addressed as an aspect of their care. However, there has b... Read More about Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2014)
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Woods, A., Jones, N., Bernini, M., Callard, F., Alderson-Day, B., Badcock, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2014). Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 40(Suppl 4), S246-S254. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu003

Despite the recent proliferation of scientific, clinical, and narrative accounts of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), the phenomenology of voice hearing remains opaque and undertheorized. In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary approach... Read More about Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Phenomenology of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Importance of Spiritual Well-Being in Assessment of Recovery: The Service-User Recovery Evaluation (SeRvE) Scale (2012)
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Barber, J., Parkes, M., Parsons, H., & Cook, C. (2012). Importance of Spiritual Well-Being in Assessment of Recovery: The Service-User Recovery Evaluation (SeRvE) Scale. The psychiatrist, 36(12), 444-450. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.111.037838

Aims and method: To develop a self-report questionnaire to measure mental health recovery from the service user viewpoint. Literature searches and scoping exercises indicated that psychological, social and spiritual issues should be included. The res... Read More about Importance of Spiritual Well-Being in Assessment of Recovery: The Service-User Recovery Evaluation (SeRvE) Scale.

Keynote 4 : spirituality and health (2012)
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Cook, C. (2012). Keynote 4 : spirituality and health. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 2(2), 150-162. https://doi.org/10.1179/jss.2.2.g7w3647127205j85

In a fragmented world, which lacks coherent and integrated ways of understanding spirituality and health, there is nonetheless a growing research evidence base which supports the importance of spirituality and religion as variables of interest in the... Read More about Keynote 4 : spirituality and health.

Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Current Controversies and Future Directions (2012)
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Dein, S., Cook, C., & Koenig, H. (2012). Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Current Controversies and Future Directions. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200(10), 852-855. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e31826b6dle

Although studies examining religion, spirituality, and mental health generally indicate positive associations, there is a need for more sophisticated methodology, greater discrimination between different cultures and traditions, more focus on situate... Read More about Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Current Controversies and Future Directions.

Psychiatry in scripture: sacred texts and psychopathology (2012)
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Cook, C. (2012). Psychiatry in scripture: sacred texts and psychopathology. The psychiatrist, 36(6), 225-229. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.111.036418

The engagement of psychiatry with religion is increasingly important for better understanding of the ways in which religious people find resources to cope with mental disorder. An example of how a more critical and constructive engagement might be ac... Read More about Psychiatry in scripture: sacred texts and psychopathology.

Pathway to accommodate patients' spiritual needs (2012)
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Cook, C., Breckon, J., Jay, C., Renwick, L., & Walker, P. (2012). Pathway to accommodate patients' spiritual needs. Nursing Management, 19(2), 33-37. https://doi.org/10.7748/nm2012.05.19.2.33.c9059

Many service users would like their spiritual needs to be taken into account during treatment and doing so has been shown to have positive benefits. However, this rarely happens in practice. Barriers to healthcare professionals providing spiritual ca... Read More about Pathway to accommodate patients' spiritual needs.

Self-belief: holistic psychiatry in a secular age. Commentary on... Holistic Psychiatry without the whole self (2012)
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Cook, C. (2012). Self-belief: holistic psychiatry in a secular age. Commentary on... Holistic Psychiatry without the whole self. The psychiatrist, 36(3), 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.111.037929

Charles Taylor provides important philosophical accounts of what it means to be a ‘self’ in a secular age. Psychiatry has not traditionally concerned itself with other than limited accounts of the concept of the self but Taylor’s work sheds a reveali... Read More about Self-belief: holistic psychiatry in a secular age. Commentary on... Holistic Psychiatry without the whole self.

Praying with a patient constitutes a breach of professional boundaries in psychiatric practice (2011)
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Pool, R., & Cook, C. (2011). Praying with a patient constitutes a breach of professional boundaries in psychiatric practice. British Journal of Psychiatry, 199(2), 94-98. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.111.096529

The extent to which religion and spirituality are integrated into routine psychiatric practice has been a source of increasing controversy over recent years. While taking a patient’s spiritual needs into account when planning their care may be less c... Read More about Praying with a patient constitutes a breach of professional boundaries in psychiatric practice.

Spirituality and Secularity: Professional Boundaries in Psychiatry (2011)
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Cook, C., Powell, A., Sims, A., & Eagger, S. (2011). Spirituality and Secularity: Professional Boundaries in Psychiatry. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 14(1), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2010.484935

Spirituality is assuming increasing importance in clinical practice and in research in psychiatry. This increasing salience of spirituality raises important questions about the boundaries of good professional practice. Answers to these questions requ... Read More about Spirituality and Secularity: Professional Boundaries in Psychiatry.

Spirituality, secularity and religion in psychiatric practice: Commentary on... Spirituality and religion in psychiatric practice (2010)
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Cook, C. (2010). Spirituality, secularity and religion in psychiatric practice: Commentary on... Spirituality and religion in psychiatric practice. The psychiatrist, 34(5), 193-195. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.109.029108

Spirituality and religion, in our secular age, are subject to what Charles Taylor calls ‘closed world structures’ which make disbelief in transcendence appear incontrovertible when in fact, rationally speaking, it is not. It is arguably an effect of... Read More about Spirituality, secularity and religion in psychiatric practice: Commentary on... Spirituality and religion in psychiatric practice.

Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health (2010)
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Dein, S., Cook, C., Powell, A., & Eagger, S. (2010). Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health. The psychiatrist, 34(2), 63-64. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.109.025924

Research demonstrates important associations between religiosity and well-being; spirituality and religious faith are important coping mechanisms for managing stressful life events. Despite this, there is a religiosity gap between mental health clini... Read More about Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health.

Wernicke's Encephalopathy revisted: Translation of the case history section of the original manuscript by Carl Wernicke ‘Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten fur Aerzte and Studirende’ (1881) with a commentary (2008)
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: Thomson, A., Cook, C., Guerrini, I., Sheedy, D., Harper, C., & Marshall, E. (2008). Wernicke's Encephalopathy revisted: Translation of the case history section of the original manuscript by Carl Wernicke ‘Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten fur Aerzte and Studirende’ (1881) with a commentary. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 43(2), 174-179. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agm144

Aims: A translation into English of the case history section of Carl Wernicke's original manuscript of 1881, with a discussion on its relevance for clinicians today. Methods: A copy of Carl Wernicke's original German text was obtained by one of the a... Read More about Wernicke's Encephalopathy revisted: Translation of the case history section of the original manuscript by Carl Wernicke ‘Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten fur Aerzte and Studirende’ (1881) with a commentary.

Wernicke's Encephalopathy: 'plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose' (2008)
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Thomson, A., Cook, C., Guerrini, I., Sheedy, D., Harper, C., & Marshall, E. (2008). Wernicke's Encephalopathy: 'plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 43(2), 180-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agm149

Aims: To develop clinical guidelines to identify individuals who misuse alcohol and are at risk of developing Wernicke's Encephalopathy (WE). Method: Non-systematic literature review of studies which includes a careful clinical record of the developm... Read More about Wernicke's Encephalopathy: 'plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'.