Chris Cook

Christopher C. H. Cook is Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, Honorary Chaplain for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, and a consultant to Holy Rood House. From 1997 to 2003, he was Professor of the Psychiatry of Alcohol Misuse at the University of Kent. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 2001. Chris was Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health in the Department of Theology and Religion, and Director of the Centre for Spirituality, Theology & Health, at Durham University from 2012–22. He has twice been Chair of the Spirituality & Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was Co-Chair of the Section on Religion & Spirituality at the World Psychiatric Association from 2022–3. His books include Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine (2018), Christians Hearing Voices (2020), and (as lead editor) Spirituality and Psychiatry, second edition (2023).