Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper was a registered social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Centre and the University of East London. He practised as a clinical social worker in the Adolescent Family Therapy service at the Tavistock, led the Professional Doctorate in Social Work and Social Care programmes there, and worked as a consultant to teams and organisations. In addition to his books Borderline Welfare: Fear and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare (co-authored with J. Lousada, 2005) and Conjunctions (2018), he has written widely about therapeutic and relationship-based social work practice and research as well as the policy contexts that support or impede these practices.
Borderline Welfare: Feeling and Fear of Feeling in Modern Welfare
Which ‘forms of feeling’ are facilitated and which discouraged within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new public... (more)
Conjunctions: Between Social Work, Psychoanalysis, and Society
Conjunctions engages separately and connectively with therapeutic social work practice, psychoanalytically informed research methods and philosophy, as well as contemporary human service... (more)
Bluebird: The Place of Death and Fear of Dying in My Long, Good Life
This uplifting memoir is a meditation on mortality and the art of living. Exploring death, dying and the impact of life-threatening illness, it raises profound questions that provoke the reader to... (more)