Research Interests: Social constructionist approaches to gender and mental health; Critical Health Psychology; Discourse Analysis; Qualitative approaches to research.
Selected Publications:
McKenzie-Mohr, S. & Lafrance, M.N. (in press). Telling stories without the words: 'Tightrope talk' in women's accounts of coming to live well after rape or depression. Feminism & Psychology.
Lafrance, M.N. (2009). Women and depression: Recovery and resistance. London: Routledge.
Lafrance, M.N. (2007). A bitter pill: A discursive analysis of women’s medicalised accounts of depression. Journal of Health Psychology, 12 (1), 127-140.
Lafrance, M.N., & Stoppard, J.M. (2007). Re-storying women’s depression: A material-discursive approach. In C. Brown & T. Augusta-Scott, T. (Eds.). Postmodern Practices in Narrative Therapy (pp. 23-37). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Lafrance, M.N., & Stoppard, J.M. (2006). Constructing a non-depressed self: Women’s accounts of recovery from depression. Feminism & Psychology (16) 3, 307-325.
Selected Conference Presentations:
Lafrance, M.N. (July, 2009). Balancing Acts and Tightrope Talk: Constructing an agent-patient identity in narratives of recovery from depression. Paper presented at the International Society for Critical Health Psychology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lafrance, M.N. (July, 2009). Mothers, Tomboys and Wilderness Women: Reproducing and Resisting Discourses of Femininity in Women’s Accounts of Leisure. Paper presented at the International Society for Critical Health Psychology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lafrance, M.N. (May, 2008). "I don't want to be selfish": Women's struggles to care for the self. Paper presented at the 25th Qualitative Analysis Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
McKenzie-Mohr, S., & Lafrance, M.N. (May, 2008). Telling Stories without the Words: Women’s accounts of moving out from and beyond rape or depression. Paper presented at Narrative Matters Conference, Toronto Ontario.
Lafrance, M.N. (July, 2007). ‘It’s just like diabetes’: A discursive analysis of medicalized constructions of depression. Paper presented at the International Society for Critical Health Psychology, Boston, USA.
Lafrance, M.N., & Stoppard, J.M. (March 2005). The ‘good’ woman and the healthy woman: A contradiction in terms? Paper presented at the International Society for Critical Health Psychology, Sheffield, UK.
Courses Regularly
Taught
Psyc 1023 Introduction to Psychology
Psyc 2643 Abnormal Psychology
Psyc 3613 Models of Psychotherapy with Adults
Psyc 4433 Seminar in Women and Mental Health
Student resource on careers in psychology and helping professions
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