Dr. Rebecca Sargisson is a behavior analyst whose career in research has taken her from chicken labs to war zones to climate psychology in the Netherlands.

A candid, surprising conversation about risk, behaviour change, and why humans are a lot more like dogs (and pigeons) than we'd like to admit.

In this conversation:

🔹 Why an entire UN landmine-detection program had to be shut down

🔹 Bees, elephants, and giant rats: the strange animals being trained to detect landmines and disease

🔹 Why playgrounds have gotten "too safe", and what kids lose because of it

🔹 The behaviourist case that your attitudes don't shape your behaviour- your behaviour shapes your attitudes

🔹 Why demographics barely predict who cares about the environment

🔹 How AI is quietly eroding critical thinking in university students

A wide-ranging conversation about risk, behavior change, and what actually drives human (and animal) decision-making.

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Dr. Nick Wilson is one of New Zealand's foremost forensic and clinical psychologists- a former police officer and nightclub bouncer who went on to conduct the largest long-term study of its kind: tracking psychopathic offenders after release.

He has created numerous assessment tools used around the world, and is a sought after keynote speaker at conferences.

In this episode, Dr Nick shares:

🔹 Inside look at psychopathy research and behaviour change

🔹 Why "psychopath" doesn't mean "untreatable", why avoidance can sometimes be a helpful strategy, and what actually changes risk

🔹 The truth about why self-help books end up in the bargain bin

🔹 Viktor Frankl, logotherapy, and finding meaning in suffering

🔹 Why everyone wants an ADHD or autism diagnosis- and nobody wants a personality disorder one

🔹 How he manages his mental health and the emotional weight of 30 years in this field

🔹 What the future of psychology looks like in the age of disruption and AI

A masterclass in psychology, criminal justice, and what it really means to help people change.

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For more than 30 years, Dr. Peter Stanley worked as a child psychologist, teacher, academic, police officer, and probation officer.

In this conversation, he reflects on the biggest lessons from a lifetime of helping children and families with their behaviours and mental health challenges. We explore why he believes psychologists should always be "working for the child," why he moved away from an expert-driven model of psychology, and why he holds differing views about diagnosis and labels.

Whether you're a psychologist, teacher, parent, or simply interested in mental health, this conversation will challenge many assumptions about how we understand children's behaviour and how meaningful change actually happens.

In this episode we discuss:

• Dr. Stanley's journey into psychology
• Why psychologists should always work for the child
• The evolution of educational psychology Inclusion vs exclusion in schools
• Diagnosis
• The importance of parenting and relationships
• Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
• Incredible Years parenting programmes
• Lessons from over three decades in psychology

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What does 40+ years as a psychologist teach you about being human and mental health? 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 for what's going right.

Whether you're in the helping professions, curious about mental health, or just want to raise resilient kids, this episode is full of hard-won wisdom.

Trigger warning: some discussion around topic of suicide

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