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Professor Rachel Cooper

Senior Lecturer

  1. 2023
  2. Forthcoming

    Psychiatric kinds and the DSM: Notes from a conceptual building site

    Cooper, R., 6/10/2023, (Accepted/In press) New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering : Foundational Issues. Isaac, M. G. & Scharp, K. (eds.). Springer

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  3. 2021
  4. Published

    Reasons to Expect Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) to Vary Across Cultures

    Cooper, R., 15/12/2021, Psychopathy: Its Uses, Validity and Status. Malatesti, L., McMillan, J. & Šustar, P. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 253-268 16 p. (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences ; vol. 27).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  5. Published

    On Harm

    Cooper, R., 1/02/2021, Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and his Critics. Faucher, L. & Forest, D. (eds.). MIT Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  6. 2020
  7. Published

    When answers are hard to find, change the question: Asking different causal questions can enable progress

    Cooper, R., 21/10/2020, Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine. Davies, W., Savulescu, J., Roache, R. & Loebel, J. P. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  8. Published

    The concept of disorder revisited: Robustly value-laden despite change

    Cooper, R., 1/07/2020, In: Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 94, 1, p. 141-161 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  9. 2019
  10. Published

    Commentary on Jonathan Raskin’s ‘What might an alternative to the DSM suitable for psychotherapists look like?’

    Cooper, R. V., 1/05/2019, In: Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 59, 3, p. 376-384 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  11. 2018
  12. Published

    The Myth of Hempel and the DSM-III

    Cooper, R. V. & Blashfield, R., 08/2018, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 70, p. 10-19 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Understanding the DSM-5: stasis and change

    Cooper, R. V., 1/03/2018, In: History of Psychiatry. 29, 1, p. 49-65 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. 2017
  15. Published

    Socratic questioning in alien landscapes?

    Cooper, R. V., 11/2017, In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 34, 5, p. 724-729 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    A modest proposal: commentary on “A role for philosophers, sociologists and bioethicists in revising the DSM”

    Cooper, R., 09/2017, In: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. 24, 3, p. 207-209 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Where’s the problem? considering Laing and Esterson’s account of schizophrenia, social models of disability, and extended mental disorder

    Cooper, R. V., 08/2017, In: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 38, 4, p. 295-305 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Classification, rating scales, and promoting user-led research

    Cooper, R. V., 14/02/2017, Extraordinary science and psychiatry: responding to the current crisis in mental health research. Poland, J. & Tekin, E. (eds.). MIT Press, (Philosophical Psychopathology).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  19. Published

    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

    Cooper, R. V., 2017, In: Knowledge Organization. 44, 8, p. 668-676 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Doing without A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

    Cooper, R. V., 2017, In: Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. 24, p. 10-12 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debate

  21. 2016
  22. Published

    Health and disease

    Cooper, R. V., 15/12/2016, The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine. Marcum, J. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury, p. 275-296 (Bloomsbury Companions).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  23. Published

    First do no harm? what role should considerations of potential harm play in revising the D.S.M.?

    Cooper, R., 06/2016, In: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. 23, 2, p. 103-113 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Re-evaluating the DSM-I

    Cooper, R. & Blashfield, R., 02/2016, In: Psychological Medicine. 46, 3, p. 449-456 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. 2015
  26. Published

    How might I have been?

    Cooper, R., 10/2015, In: Metaphilosophy. 46, 4-5, p. 495-514 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Why is the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders so hard to revise? path-dependence and “lock-in” in classification

    Cooper, R., 06/2015, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 51, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Kuhnian paradigms

    Blease, C. & Cooper, R., 20/01/2015, The encyclopedia of clinical psychology. Cautin, R. & Lilienfeld, S. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  29. Published

    Must disorders cause harm? the changing stance of the DSM

    Cooper, R. V., 2015, The DSM-5 in perspective: philosophical reflections on the psychiatric babel. Demazeux, S. & Singy, P. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 83-96 14 p. (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences; vol. 10).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  30. 2014
  31. Published

    Duhem-Quine thesis

    Cooper, R. & Blease, C., 12/2014, The encyclopedia of clinical psychology. Cautin, R. & Lilienfeld, S. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  32. Published

    Review of A Metaphysics of Psychopathology. By P.Zachar

    Cooper, R. V., 10/2014, In: Psychological Medicine. 44, 14, p. 3135-3135 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

  33. Published

    Shifting boundaries between the normal and the pathological: the case of mild intellectual disability

    Cooper, R., 06/2014, In: History of Psychiatry. 25, 2, p. 171-186 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    On deciding to have a lobotomy: either lobotomies were justified or decisions under risk should not always seek to maximise expected utility

    Cooper, R., 02/2014, In: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 17, 1, p. 143-154 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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