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Christopher Cook's Outputs (117)

Psychological Temperament, Spirituality, and Augustinian Prayer: An Empirical Enquiry (2025)
Journal Article
Francis, L. J., Cook, C. C., & McKenna, U. (online). Psychological Temperament, Spirituality, and Augustinian Prayer: An Empirical Enquiry. Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, https://doi.org/10.1177/19397909241309304

Drawing on data provided by 207 Anglican and Methodist ministry training candidates, who completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and an 80-item battery of type-related prayer preference items, this study tested the thesis advanced by Michael and No... Read More about Psychological Temperament, Spirituality, and Augustinian Prayer: An Empirical Enquiry.

Demon Possession, Theology, and Mental Health (2024)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. H. (online). Demon Possession, Theology, and Mental Health. Journal of Disability and Religion, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23312521.2024.2441435

Beliefs that human distress may be caused by demon possession have a long history and are very common around the world. They have been the subject of research across multiple academic disciplines and are a topic of theological as well as medical and... Read More about Demon Possession, Theology, and Mental Health.

The Psychological Type and Temperament Profile of Ordinands at Cranmer Hall, Durham, 2008–2016 (2024)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. H., Francis, L. J., & McKenna, U. (2024). The Psychological Type and Temperament Profile of Ordinands at Cranmer Hall, Durham, 2008–2016. Journal of Empirical Theology, 37(2), 240-257. https://doi.org/10.1163/15709256-20240010

This study explores the psychological type and temperament profile of 117 male and 80 female ordinands training at Cranmer Hall, Durham, over a nine-year period alongside earlier studies of Church of England stipendiary clergy. The data confirm the... Read More about The Psychological Type and Temperament Profile of Ordinands at Cranmer Hall, Durham, 2008–2016.

Hearing Spiritual Voices: Medieval Mysticism, Meaning and Psychiatry (2023)
Book
Cook, C. C. H. (2023). Hearing Spiritual Voices: Medieval Mysticism, Meaning and Psychiatry. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567708014

This open access book explores unusual perceptual, or perception-like, experiences. These are often meaningful to those who have them and may be sympathetically or unsympathetically interpreted by others. One interpretation, especially when voices ar... Read More about Hearing Spiritual Voices: Medieval Mysticism, Meaning and Psychiatry.

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. (2024). Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study. BJPsych Bulletin, 48(4), 221-225. 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. (online). Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice. BJPsych Bulletin, 48(2), 133-138. 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.

Psychotic Symptoms and Spiritual Phenomena (2021)
Book Chapter
Cook, C. C. (2021). Psychotic Symptoms and Spiritual Phenomena. In J. Peteet, H. Moffic, A. Hankir, & H. Koenig (Eds.), Christianity and Psychiatry (37-50). Springer Verlag

Spirituality, Religion and Voices (2021)
Book Chapter
Cook, C. C. (2021). Spirituality, Religion and Voices. In I. Parker, J. Schnackenberg, & M. Hopfenbeck (Eds.), The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices (85-93). PCCS

Christianity and Mental Health (2021)
Book Chapter
Gray, A. J., & Cook, C. C. (2021). Christianity and Mental Health. In A. Moreira-Almeida, B. Mosqueiro, & D. Bhugra (Eds.), Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures (167-182). Oxford University Press

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.