automatic actions or behavior without conscious volition or knowledge. Such episodes might last for a few minutes or a few days. During such episodes, the person appears normal but, is actually in a trance like state. While in such a state the person is not responsible for his acts and should not be left alone. He may carry out complicated acts without remembering having done so. Such episodes have been associated with severe emotional distress and temporal motor epilepsy.
is phrase used to describe the movements made by a person having a Complex Partial seizure. The type of movements include wandering about, fumbling with clothes, babbling to themselves or make other noises.
Automatic and apparently undirected nonpurposeful behavior that is not consciously controlled. Seen in psychomotor epilepsy.
any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
a more or less coordinated, involuntary motor activity
The theory in which the subconscious communicates with the conscious by means of a vehicle such as a Ouija board, automatic writing or pendulum swinging.
Creation of a work of art randomly or mechanically, rather than by conscious design. Joan Miró was an autonomatist painter.
An unconscious or spontaneous muscular movement caused byghosts or the spirits. Automatic Writing is one form of Automatism.
Automatic, involuntary movement during a seizure; may involve mouth, hand, leg, or body movements; consciousness is usually impaired; occurs during complex partial and absence seizures and after tonic-clonic seizures.
A technique whereby the usual intellectual control of the artist over his or her brush or pencil is foregone. The artist’s aim is to allow the subconscious to create the artwork without rational interference. Also called automatic writing, automatism was developed by the Surrealists in the 1910’s, and it was influential for later movements such as Abstract Expressionism.
A method of drawing where the pen is never lifted from the paper, allowing it to rove without any conscious planning.
"State of Automation" Acting reflexively, not under conscious control. Automatism may be a defence against a criminal charge, but not if the defendant was responsible for the situation that gave rise to the automatism [see R v Quick (1973)]. BARRISTER - A barrister is a legal professional with who specialises in the representation of clients in a court or a tribunal.
An inability to control physical reflexes, produced by some external cause. It is a criminal defence.
The theory that living organisms are governed solely by the laws of physics and mechanics. An extreme form of behaviorism that denies conscious control of actions.
Involuntary, undirected movements during complex partial seizures and atypical absence seizures.
Any unconscious and spontaneous muscular movement caused by ‘ the spirits'. (Automatic writing).
Technique of creating a work of art without the use of thought or the conscious mind.
movements,or sensations, not controlled by the conscious self. which may mimicthe characteristic habits or acts of another consciousness. See AUTOMATISM.
An unconscious or involuntary muscular movement caused by spirits. (See automatic writing)
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. Last updated:March 8, 2006
Any complex sensory or motor activity the details of which are carried out by a person without their conscious awareness or volition, thus constituting instances of dissociation; examples of sensory automatisms are certain visual and auditory hallucinations; examples of motor automatisms are sleep-walking, trance-utterances and automatic writing.
In the Criminal Law, automatism is a defense to liability. Except in the case of strict liability offences, a crime must contain two elements: the actus reus or "guilty act", and the mens rea or "guilty mind". This defense seeks to prove that the criminal defendant made only physical movements and did not "act" as required to prove the actus reus.
In criminal law, automatism is a complex and sometimes controversial excuse to liability where physical or environmental factors negate the existence of the actus reus (Latin for "guilty act").