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Dr Andrea LaMarre PhD

Lecturer in Critical Health Psychology

Doctoral Co-Supervisor
School of Psychology

Professional

Contact details

  • Location: 3.20, School of Psychology, Level 3, North Shore Library Building
    Campus: Albany

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Philosophy - University of Guelph (2018)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Co-Supervisor, Massey University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

I use qualitative and arts-based methods to approach issues from a critical health psychology lens. My research primarily focuses on eating disorders, body image, and embodiment, often through story. I have also conducted research at the intersection of weight stigma and reproductive health. Broadly, my work explores bodies in the world--what it means to be embodied and engage in food and exercise practices in a world that holds very specific dictates around what it means to "be healthy." I am also interested in lived experience/patient-driven care and co-design across mental health and for eating disorders in particular, in e-health technologies, and in social justice informed approaches to research, treatment, and advocacy in mental health.

Thematics

Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Gender Psychology (170105): Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology (170106): Psychology (170100): Psychology And Cognitive Sciences (170000): Social and Community Psychology (170113)

Keywords

eating disorders, body image, embodiment, feminism, qualitative methods, arts-based methods

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
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Research Outputs

Journal

Smoliak, O., Rice, C., Knudson-Martin, C., Briscoe, C., LeCouteur, A., LaMarre, A., . . . Vesely, L. (2021). Denials of Responsibility in Couple Therapy. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy.
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Lamarre, A. (2021). Embodying artistic reflexive praxis: An early career academic's reflections on pain, anxiety, and eating disorder recovery research. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. 22(2)
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Smoliak, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Tseliou, E., LeCouteur, A., Myers, M., . . . Velikonja, L. (2021). The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
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Rice, C., Riley, S., LaMarre, A., & Bailey, KA. (2021). What a body can do: Rethinking body functionality through a feminist materialist disability lens. Body Image. 38, 95-105
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Lamarre, A., Rice, C., & Besse, K. (2021). Letting Bodies be Bodies: Exploring Relaxed Performance in the Canadian Performance Landscape. Studies in Social Justice. 15(2), 184-208
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LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2021). Recovering Uncertainty: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery in Context. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: an international journal of comparative cross-cultural research. , Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-020-09700-7
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Lamarre, A., & Rice, C. (2021). Healthcare providers' engagement with eating disorder recovery narratives: Opening to complexity and diversity. Medical Humanities. 47(1), 78-86
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Bachner-Melman, R., de Vos, JA., Zohar, AH., Shalom, M., Mcgilley, B., Oberlin, K., . . . Dooley-Hash, S. (2021). Attitudes towards eating disorders clinicians with personal experience of an eating disorder. Eating and Weight Disorders. 26(6), 1881-1891
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LaMarre, A., d'Avernas, E., Riley, B., Raffoul, A., & Jain, R. (2020). A rapid review of evaluation capacity-building strategies for chronic disease prevention. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 35(1), 1-19
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Rice, C., Pendleton Jiménez, K., Harrison, E., Robinson, M., Rinaldi, J., Lamarre, A., . . . Andrew, J. (2020). Bodies at the intersections: Refiguring intersectionality through queer women’s complex embodiments. Signs. 46(1), 177-200
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LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2021). The eating disorder recovery assemblage: Collectively generating possibilities for eating disorder recovery. Feminism and Psychology. 31(2), 231-251
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LaMarre, A., Riley, B., Jain, R., Zupko, B., & Buetti, D. (2020). Chronic disease prevention evaluation in Ontario’s public health system: a qualitative needs assessment. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 111(6), 1002-1010
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LaMarre, A. (2020). Famished: Eating disorders and failed care in America. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 30(3), 336-338 Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/casp.2454
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LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Cook, K., & Friedman, M. (2020). Fat Reproductive Justice: Navigating the Boundaries of Reproductive Health Care. Journal of Social Issues. 76(2), 338-362
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Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Changfoot, N., & Douglas, P. (2020). Making spaces: multimedia storytelling as reflexive, creative praxis. Qualitative Research in Psychology. 17(2), 222-239
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Gotovac, S., LaMarre, A., & Lafreniere, K. (2020). Words with weight: The construction of obesity in eating disorders research. Health (United Kingdom). 24(2), 113-131
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LaMarre, A., Smoliak, O., Cool, C., Kinavey, H., & Hardt, L. (2019). The Normal, Improving, and Productive Self: Unpacking Neoliberal Governmentality in Therapeutic Interactions. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. 32(3), 236-253
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LaMarre, A., & Roosen, K. (2018). Navigating differences within eating disorders and “the other”: What the professional brings and what they leave behind. The Journal of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre. , 18-24 Retrieved from https://nedic.ca/resources/
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Lind, ERM., Kotow, C., Rice, C., Rinaldi, J., LaMarre, A., Friedman, M., . . . Tidgwell, T. (2018). Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multimedia storytelling: Making time with through thick and thin. Fat Studies. 7(2), 181-192
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Chandler, E., Changfoot, N., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., & Mykitiuk, R. (2018). Cultivating disability arts in Ontario. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. 40(3), 249-264
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Rinaldi, J., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., McPhail, D., & Harrison, E. (2017). Fatness and failing citizenship. Somatechnics. 7(2), 218-233
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LaMarre, A., Rice, C., & Jankowski, G. (2017). Eating Disorder Prevention as Biopedagogy. Fat Studies. 6(3), 241-254
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Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Hardt, L., & Le Couteur, A. (2017). New Sexism in Couple Therapy: A Discursive Analysis. Family Process. 56(3), 686-700
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Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2017). The Primacy of Discourse in the Study of Gender in Family Therapy. Family Process. 56(3), 669-685
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LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2017). Hashtag recovery: #Eating disorder recovery on Instagram. Social Sciences. 6(3)
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de Vos, JA., LaMarre, A., Radstaak, M., Bijkerk, CA., Bohlmeijer, ET., & Westerhof, GJ. (2017). Identifying fundamental criteria for eating disorder recovery: A systematic review and qualitative meta-analysis. Journal of Eating Disorders. 5(1)
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LaMarre, A., Bishop-Williams, K., Racey, M., Day, L., & Meeks, T. (2016). Designing a culture of co- learning: Mobilizing knowledge about KMb amongst graduate students. Scholarly Research and Communication. 7(1), 1-15 Retrieved from https://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/233/465
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Rinaldi, J., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Pendleton-Jiménez, K., Harrison, E., Friedman, M., . . . Tidgwell, T. (2016). Through Thick and Thin: Storying queer women’s experiences of idealized body images and expected body management practices. Psychology of Sexualities Review. 7(2), 63-77
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Lamarre, A., & Rice, C. (2016). Normal Eating Is Counter-Cultural: Embodied Experiences of Eating Disorder Recovery. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 26(2), 136-149
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LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2016). Embodying critical and corporeal methodology: Digital storytelling with young women in eating disorder recovery. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. 17(2)
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Sutherland, O., Couture, S., Gaete Silva, J., Strong, T., Lamarre, A., & Hardt, L. (2016). Social Justice Oriented Diagnostic Discussions: A Discursive Perspective. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. 28(2-3), 76-99
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Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Hardt, L., & Jeffrey, N. (2016). Gendered Patterns of Interaction: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Couple Therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy. 38(4), 385-399
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Pileggi, V., Holliday, J., DeSantis, C., LaMarre, A., Jeffrey, N., Tetro, M., . . . Rice, C. (2015). Becoming scholars in an interdisciplinary, feminist learning context.. Feminist Teacher: a journal of the practices, theories, and scholarship of feminist teaching. 26(1), 29-52
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LaMarre, A., Robson, J., & Dawczyk, A. (2015). Mothers' use of blogs while angaged in family-based treatment for a child's eating disorder. Families, Systems and Health. 33(4), 390-394
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LaMarre, A., & Sutherland, O. (2014). Expert opinion? A micro-analysis of eating disorder talk on Dr. Phil. Qualitative Report. 19(43)
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LaMarre, A., & Hunter, L. (2013). The use of community engaged learning in the teaching of the sociology of deviance. Teaching and Learning Innovations Journal. 15 Retrieved from https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/tli/article/view/2702
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Book

Smoliak, O., Couture, S., Silva, JG., Rogers-De-Jong, M., Sametband, I., & Lamarre, A. (2021). Exploring the practical potential of discursive research in family therapy. In Improving Communication in Mental Health Settings: Evidence-Based Recommendations from Practitioner-led Research. (pp. 36 - 53).
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LaMarre, A., & Danielsdottir, S. (2019). Health at Every Size: A Social Justice–Informed Approach to Positive Embodiment. In TL. Tylka, & N. Piran (Eds.) Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment: Constructs, Protective Factors, and Interventions. (pp. 300 - 311). : Oxford Clinical Psychology
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Tseliou, E., Smoliak, O., LaMarre, A., & Quinn-Nilas, C. (2019). Discursive psychology as applied science. In K. O'Doherty, & D. Hodgetts (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology. (pp. 400 - 418). : SAGE
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LaMarre, A. (2019). Social media and eating disorders: Untangling the web. In J. Morrissey, & K. Oberlin (Eds.) Working with People Affected by Eating Disorders: Developing Skills and Facilitating Recovery. (pp. 164 - 180). : Macmillan: Red Globe Press
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Lamarre, A., Rice, C., & Rinaldi, J. (2019). Tracing fatness through the eating disorder assemblage. In Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice. (pp. 64 - 76).
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Sage, M., Singer, JB., LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2018). Digital storytelling: Tools, techniques and traditions. In L. Goldkind, L. Wolf, & PP. Freddolino (Eds.) Digital Social Work: Tools for practice with individuals, organizations, and communities. (pp. 90 - 108). : Oxford University Press
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Rice, C., LaMarre, A., & Mykitiuk, R. (2018). Cripping the ethics of disability arts research. In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical Research. (pp. 257 - 272).
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Gazzola, N., LaMarre, A., & Smoliak, O. (2017). Social justice and advocacy: Critical issues in counselor education. In Social Justice and Counseling: Discourse in Practice. (pp. 43 - 56).
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Rinaldi, J., LaMarre, A., & Rice, C. (2016). Recovering bodies: The production of the recoverable subject in eating disorder treatment regimes. In J. Coffey, S. Budgeon, & H. Cahill (Eds.) Learning bodies: The body in youth and childhood studies.. (pp. 157 - 172). : Springer Press
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LaMarre, A., Rice, C., & Bear, M. (2015). Unrecoverable? prescriptions and possibilities for eating disorder recovery. In Women's Mental Health: Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society. (pp. 145 - 160).
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Conference

Harrop, EN., & LaMarre, A. (2018). Painting pretty pictures of recovery: A critical discourse analysis of eating disorder treatment center promotional materials. In Journal of Adolescent Health Vol. 62 , Global Adolescent Health Equity: Elsevier
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Other

LaMarre, A., Bergen, A., & Devereaux, R. (2013). Youth harm reduction programs in Ontario: Report and expansion report.
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Teaching and Supervision

Courses Coordinated

  • 175.317 Health Psychology
  • 175.739 Health Psychology: Understanding Health and Illness
Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 5 0

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • Melinda Lewthwaite - Doctor of Philosophy
    Exploring entanglements of long-term (chronic) health conditions, self-care dietary and body practices and experiences of disordered eating / eating disorders.
  • Jessie Dennis - Doctor of Clinical Psychology
    Addressing sociopolitical context in therapy with survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence: Aligning trauma-informed and social justice praxis.
  • Hannah Zimmerman - Doctor of Clinical Psychology
    Investigating Key Stakeholder Perspectives of Consumer Involvement in New Zealand Clinical Psychology Training Programmes
  • Laura Stanley - Doctor of Clinical Psychology
    What contributes to recovery for parents with drug and alcohol misuse and dependency difficulties
  • Natasha Amarasekara - Doctor of Clinical Psychology
    Exploring the Narratives of People with Lived Experiences of Eating-Related Distress and their Stories of Recovery