Article

O'Sullivan, Nicola and Cooper, Andrew (2021) Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet. Journal of Social Work Practice . ISSN 0265-0533

Cooper, Andrew (2021) The Tavistock – Now and then. New Associations (33). pp. 9-10. ISSN 2042-9096

Cooper, Andrew and Lees, Amanda (2019) Reflective practice groups in a children’s social work setting - what are the outcomes, how do they work and under what circumstances? A new theoretical model based on empirical findings. Journal of Social Work Practice . ISSN 0265-0533

Cooper, Andrew (2019) The Passion of Brexit (comment). New Associations, 28 . pp. 11-12. ISSN 2042-9096

Cooper, Andrew and Lousada, Julian (2016) What's our state of mind? New Associations (21). ISSN 2042-9096

Cooper, Andrew (2016) A good death? Journal of Social Work Practice, 30 (2). pp. 121-127. ISSN 0265-0533 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew (2015) Containing tensions: Psychoanalysis and modern policymaking. Juncture, 22 (2). pp. 157-163. ISSN 2050-5868 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew (2015) Reviving therapeutic social work. New Associations (19). pp. 1-2.

Cooper, Andrew and Whittaker, Andrew (2014) History as tragedy, never as farce: Tracing the long cultural narrative of child protection in England. Journal of Social Work Practice, 28 (3). pp. 251-266. ISSN 0265-0533 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew (2014) A short psychosocial history of British child abuse and protection: Case studies in problems of mourning in the public sphere. Journal of Social Work Practice, 28 (3). pp. 271-285. ISSN 0265-0533 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew and Wren, Bernadette (2012) Front line services, complexity, research and policy. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 26 (3). pp. 199-210. ISSN 0266-8734

Cooper, Andrew (2010) Institutional racism. Can psychotherapy change? British Journal of Psychotherapy, 26 (4). pp. 486-501. ISSN Print ISSN: 0265-9883 Online ISSN: 1752-0118

Cooper, Andrew and Rost, Felicitas (2010) A better response to depression. The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew (2010) Legend, myth and idea. On the fate of a great paper. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 26 (2). pp. 219-227. ISSN Print ISSN: 0265-9883 Online ISSN: 1752-0118

Cooper, Andrew (2009) Hearing the grass grow. Emotional and epistemological challenges of practice-near research. Journal of Social Work Practice, 23 (4). pp. 429-442. ISSN 0265-0533 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew (2009) Soapbox. Interprofessional working: Choice or destiny? Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 14 (4). pp. 531-536. ISSN 1359-1045

Cooper, Andrew (2008) Misguided vengeance: Ritual child abusers are skilled at evasion. Those who seek to detect them need support not the sack. The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077

Cooper, Andrew (2008) Welfare: Dead, dying or just transubstantiated? Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture (38). pp. 29-41. ISSN 1362-6620, Online ISSN: 1741-0797

Burck, Charlotte and Cooper, Andrew (2007) Introduction: 'Dialogues and developments in social work practice. Applying systemic and psychoanalytic ideas in real world contexts'. Journal of Social Work Practice, 21 (2). pp. 193-196. ISSN 0265-0533

Book Section

Cooper, Andrew (2020) Holding tensions: Social work and the Tavistock. In: The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision. Phoenix, Bicester, pp. 241-246. ISBN 978-1912691715

Cooper, Andrew (2020) Tavistock policy seminars: A contained and disruptive space. In: The Tavistock Century: 2020 Vision. Phoenix, Bicester, pp. 319-325. ISBN 978-1912691715

Cooper, Andrew (2018) What future? Organisational forms, relationship-based social work practice and the changing world order. In: Relationship-based social work: Getting to the heart of practice (Second edition). Jessica Kingsley, London, pp. 257-278. ISBN 9781785922534

Cooper, Andrew (2018) The use of self in social work practice. In: What social workers need to know. A Psychoanalytic approach. Routledge, London, pp. 109-123. ISBN 9781138905665

Cooper, Andrew (2017) Soft eyes: Observation as research. In: Observation in health and social care: Applications for learning, research and practice with children and adults. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, pp. 177-199. ISBN 9781849056755

Cooper, Andrew (2015) Emotional and relational capacities for doing child protection work. In: Challenging child protection: New directions in safeguarding children. Research Highlights in Social Work 57 . Jessica Kingsley, London, pp. 141-153. ISBN 9781849053952

Cooper, Andrew and Lees, Amanda (2014) Spotlit: Defences against anxiety in contemporary human service organizations. In: Social defences against anxiety: Explorations in a paradigm. Tavistock Clinic Series . Karnac, London, pp. 239-255. ISBN 9781782201687

Cooper, Andrew (2012) Complexity, identity, failure: Contemporary challenges to working together. In: The Transformation of children’s services: Examining and debating the complexities of inter-professional working. Routledge, London, pp. 15-23. ISBN 9780415618496

Cooper, Andrew (2012) How to (almost) murder a profession: The unsolved mystery of British social work. In: The therapeutic milieu under fire: Security and insecurity in forensic mental health. Forensic Focus . Jessica Kingsley, London, pp. 145-161. ISBN 9781849052580

Cooper, Andrew and Price, Heather (2012) In the field: Psychoanalytic observation and epistemological realism. In: Infant observation and research. Emotional processes in everyday life. Routledge, Hove, pp. 55-65. ISBN 9780415616607

Cooper, Andrew (2012) Talk talk: Theories and practices for turbulent times. In: Contemporary developments in adult and young adult therapy: The work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics, Volume 1. Tavistock Clinic Series . Karnac, London, pp. 19-41. ISBN 9781780490069

Cooper, Andrew and Lousada, Julian (2010) The shock of the real: Psychoanalysis, modernity, survival. In: Off the couch: Contemporary psychoanalytic applications. Taylor & Francis , London, pp. 33-45. ISBN 0415476151, 9780415476157 Full text available

Cooper, Andrew (2009) 'Be quiet and listen': Emotion, public policy and social totality. In: Emotion: New psychosocial perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9780230216853

Book

Cooper, Andrew (2018) Conjunctions: Social work, psychoanalysis and society. The Tavistock Clinic Series . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 978-1782203308

Wilson, Kate, Ruch, Gillian, Lymbery, Mark and Cooper, Andrew (2008) Social work: An introduction to contemporary practice. Pearson Education, Harlow. ISBN ISBN13: 9781405858465

Film/Video

Cooper, Andrew, Shaw, Helen and Morgan, Helen (2020) Tavistock Policy Seminar: Whiteness – A problem for our time. [Film/Video]

Cooper, Andrew (2008) Andrew Cooper on Newsnight. The Social Work profession in the light of the recently announced review into the Shannon Matthews case. 05 Dec 2008, BBC2 [Starts at 18:05]. [Film/Video]