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 sleep) and some forms of epilepsy such as especially psychomotor epilepsy. The psychiatric conditions associated with automatisms include schizophrenia (catatonic type) and fugue (flight) states. Automatisms involve doing something "automatically" and not remembering afterwards how one did it or even that one did it. Automatisms are also called automatic behavior.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( ô-tÅm ' É™-tÄz ' É™m ) n. The state or quality of being automatic. Automatic mechanical action. Philosophy . The ...
automatism (art), technique first used by Surrealist painters and poets to express the creative force of the unconscious in art.
automatism /au·tom·a·tism/ (aw-tom´ah-tizm) performance of nonreflex acts without conscious volition. command automatism abnormal responsiveness to commands, as ...
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noun 1. the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action. 2. Philosophy . the doctrine that all activities of animals, or of humans and ...