Look up: automatism

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   Automatism
   Physical activites (e.g., arm movements, writing, drawing, musical performance) that occur without the automatist's conscious control or knowledge. Also known as motor automatism. See also automatic writing, dissociation.
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   Automatism
   Physical activites (e.g., arm movements, writing, drawing, musical performance) that occur without the automatist's conscious control or knowledge. Also known as motor automatism. See also automatic writing, dissociation.
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   automatism
   [n] - any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
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   Automatism
   The central method of Surrealism. This movement was launched by the French poet André Breton, in the Manifesto of Surrealism published in Paris in 1924. He was strongly influenced by the ideas of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Automatism is the same as free association, the method used by Freud to explore the unconscious mind of his ...
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   Automatism
   A condition in which actions are performed without consciousness
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   Automatism
   Automatism: An unconscious movement that may resemble simple repetitive tics or may be a complex sequence of natural-looking movements. This curious type of behavior occurs in a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The neurologic disorders associated with automatisms include narcolepsy (the sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to ...
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   automatism
   any device or system which is self-acting or self-regulating and replaces or augments man in the sense of control Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Automatism
   Au·tom'a·tism noun The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.
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   automatism
   <neurology> A condition whereby an individual is consciously or unconsciously, but involuntarily, compelled to perform certain motor or verbal acts, often purposeless, foolish or harmful. ... Seen in psychomotor epilepsy, catatonic schizophrenia, psychogenic fugue, complex partial seizure, posttraumatic automatism and other conditions. ... Syno ...
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    automatism
    noun any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
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    Automatism
    `Automatism` may refer to: *Automatic behavior, spontaneous verbal or motor behavior *Automatism (toxicology), when an individual repeatedly takes a medication because the individual forgets previous doses, potentially leading to a drug overdose *Surrealist automatism, an art technique *Automatism (law), a defence to liability. See also Automatism (case law)
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    automatism
    (aw-tom´ә-tiz-әm) aimless and apparently undirected behavior that is not under conscious control and is performed without conscious knowledge; seen in psychomotor epilepsy, catatonic schizophrenia, dissociative fugue, and other conditions. command automatism the performa...
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    Automatism
    • (n.) The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.
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    automatism
    (from the article `crime`) ...a verdict is very rare in those countries that recognize this defense. Another very rare condition that wholly exempts individuals from criminal ...
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    automatism
    technique first used by Surrealist painters and poets to express the creative force of the unconscious in art.[3 related articles]
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    automatism
    in spiritualism, the spontaneous performance of certain physical acts without the conscious control of the agent. In automatism a message is ...
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    automatism
    (Gr. automatismos self-action) aimless and apparently undirected behaviour that is not under conscious control and is performed without conscious knowledge; seen in psychomotor epilepsy, catatonic schizophrenia, psychogenic fugue, and other conditions. Called also automatic behaviour.
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    automatism
    automatism 1. Behavior that is not under the control of the will, as a reflexive response. 2. An apparently goal-directed activity that is not, in fact, under the conscious, voluntary control, of the subject (occurring in epilepsy, catatonia, and fugue states). This subject includes the performance of acts without conscious will, as, for example, after an...
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    Automatism
    (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Trea...
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