What does 40+ years as a psychologist teach you about being human? Paul Prangley began his career as a teacher before training as one of the country's earliest registered psychologists.

In this wide-ranging conversation, he shares with Inked Psycho what he's learned from working with thousands of clients and systems: street kids in Auckland, complex family court cases, supporting schools through suicide clusters, and helping his own daughters navigate adolescence- with a rum-and-coke bottle and a taxi account that asked no questions.

Paul reflects on the neuroscience of stress, why diagnosis can be both liberating and a trap, what it really costs to sit with other people's pain, and why the most useful thing psychology ever gave him was the ability to look f ...