1) Criminal defense 2) Reaction 3) Response
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• (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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(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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Any unconscious and spontaneous muscular movement caused by
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(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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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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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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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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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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<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. ... Sy...
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(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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Automatic or unconscious action. Employed by Surrealist writers and artists to allow unconscious ideas and feelings to be expressed.
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Automatic and apparently undirected non-purposeful behaviour that is not consciously controlled. See
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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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Type: Term Pronunciation: aw-tom′ă-tizm Definitions: 1. The state of being independent of the will or of central innervation; applicable, for example, to the heart's action. 2. An epileptic attack consisting of stereotyped psychic, sensory, or motor phenomena carried out in a state of impaired consciousness and of which the affected pers...
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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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* or Surrealist automatism, to be more specific, is an artistic technique of spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.
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n] - any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
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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,...
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noun any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
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(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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(art) In the arts, an act of creation which either allows chance to play a major role or which draws on the unconscious mind through free association, states of trance, or dreams. Automatism was fundamental to surrealism, whose practitioners experimented with automatic writing and automatic dr...
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(medicine) Performance of actions without awareness or conscious intent. It is seen in sleep-walking and in some (relatively rare) psychotic states
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the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action. · the doctrine that all activities of animals, or of humans and animals, are entirely controlled by physical or physiological causes in which consciousness takes no part. · the involuntary functioning of an organic process, esp. muscular, without apparent neu...
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