Inability to manage stress and negative emotions is tied to opioid misuse in adults with chronic pain, according to a new study published in The Journal of Pain.

In their weekly conversation, WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott and psychologist Dan Gottlieb discuss the findings.

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We have about six weeks until Labor Day – so how has your summer been so far? Have you been able to fit in all of the fun and relaxing you have been wanting to do? Been to the beach yet? Or, has it been mostly work, and rushing around – business as usual?

In their weekly conversation, psychologist Dan Gottlieb and WHYY behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott discuss slowing down, and why it can be difficult.

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The more time we spend online, the more we end up witnessing violence and violent incidents. The video of Philando Castile bleeding to death, chaos in the streets of Nice – these images pop up without warning.

In their weekly conversation, WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott and psychologist Dan Gottlieb discuss the impact of these images on our health.

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Attention Deficit Disorder has certainly faded from the headlines a bit in recent years, but it still affects millions of people – and new research finds that when attention problems begin early in childhood, it has a big effect on education and outcomes. In their weekly conversation, WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott and psychologist Dan Gottlieb discuss the findings.

Dr. Dan gathered together academics Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David Redlawsk and clinician Lisa J. Cohen for a non-partisan discussion of the psychological and emotional issues behind politics– what happens in our brains as we are bombarded with conflicting and often angry perspectives? What goes in to our decision-making process about the candidates? And how do we keep our relationships with family and friends who hold different viewpoints? Taped before a live studio audio audience who also joined in the discussion.

Researchers have long known that intense emotions felt over time can affect our health. A new study digs a bit deeper: it analyzed arguments between spouses, and sheds light on which emotions might be associated with which conditions. In their weekly conversation, WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott and psychologist Dan Gottlieb discuss the findings.

A new book deals candidly with a very difficult topic.

For decades, history professor Raymond Douglas kept a terrible secret. As a young man, he was brutally beaten and raped by a priest in his parish. He decided to break the silence – and has written a new book called “On Being Raped.”

In their weekly conversation, psychologist Dan Gottlieb and WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott discuss the book.

New research from the University of Pennsylvania explores how awe changes people’s outlook on life – and the study subjects were astronauts!

But psychologist Dan Gottlieb says you don’t need to travel to space to experience awe and its benefits. He spoke with WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott.

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The top issues couples fight about – according to recent research – are time, money, housework, extended family, and physical intimacy. And the majority of couples never resolve their recurring arguments!

In their weekly conversation, psychologist Dan Gottlieb and WHYY’s behavioral health reporter Maiken Scott discuss the art of arguing.

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A political power couple spurred by ambition and a marriage consumed by guilt, but bonded by murderous betrayal.

The Macbeths have come to Dr. Dan Gottlieb for couples therapy. What will transpire in this session as the two are forced to look at their motivations and desires? Their transgressions have made their lives unbearable, even given to hallucinations. But Dr. Dan might have them look at what’s behind those masks of evil and perhaps discover their own human frailties.

This hour long special was taped at a live event with The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater.