TheLastPunslinger's definitions

active listening

A way of showing that one is listening to a person who is talking to them by rewording what the other person just said and repeating it back to them. This is supposed to validate the person you are listening to and rephrasing, according to some schools of thought in psychology.

Patient to therapist: I'm really depressed.
Therapist: I see. Yes. You are depressed.
Patient: Nothing is going well.
Therapist: Nothing seems to be going well.
Patient: I feel like killing myself.
Therapist: You're thinking of killing yourself.
Patient: Yes, I'm going to do it NOW.
Therapist: You want to do it now.
Patient: *Jumps out window.*
Therapist: Woosh. Splat.

by TheLastPunslinger June 5, 2005

musterbation

A term coined by Albert Ellis to describe the tendency to think that certain things "must" occur or "must" be done.

Other forms: musterbate, musterbated, musterbating

Janice was musterbating about getting an A in every course.

The only acceptable musterbation is to believe that one must not musterbate.

by TheLastPunslinger May 15, 2005

escalator music

Elevator music with a better or more pronounced beat.

Joe had nothing but escalator music on his iPod, but said that Janice was worse because she had Eiffel 65.

by TheLastPunslinger October 23, 2005

Stupopaneurocitis

The phenomenon in which the stupidity of something one is exposed to makes some of one's brain cells explode.

Hearing John say that women never have relationship problems triggered stupopaneurocitis in Jane, whose ears bled for the next several hours.

by TheLastPunslinger January 3, 2006