Look up automatism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Automatism may refer to: Automatic behavior, spontaneous verbal or motor behavior Automatism (law)...

Surrealist automatism is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind...

automatism is a rarely used criminal defence. It is one of the mental condition defences that relate to the mental state of the defendant. Automatism...

Automatism is a set of brief unconscious or automatic behaviors, typically at least several seconds or minutes, while the subject is unaware of actions...

Automatism, in toxicology, refers to a tendency to take a drug over and over again, forgetting each time that one has already taken the dose. This can...

In neurology, anterograde amnesia is the inability to create new memories after an event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability...

been one of many subjects of disagreement. Some Surrealists consider automatism and games to be sources of inspiration only, while others consider them...

The Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome or syndrome of the psychic automatism is a psychopathological syndrome, considered to be a typical feature of paranoid...

Conscious automatism (C.A.) is a position on the philosophic question that asks whether determinism, as distinguished from “free will”, can be considered...

Automatic painting (robotic) Spiritualist art § Automatic drawing Surrealist automatism § Automatic drawing and painting Automatic writing (disambiguation) This...

The case of Hill v Baxter concerns the issue of automatism in driving in England and Wales without a diagnosed condition. It sets out guidelines as to...

theoretical works about automatism. In 1919, Breton and Philippe Soupault had used what later became the Surrealist automatism method to compose Les Champs...

philosophical movement first and foremost (for instance, of the "pure psychic automatism" Breton speaks of in the first Surrealist Manifesto), with the works themselves...

R. 871 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the criminal automatism defence. On an early morning on May 24, 1987, Kenneth Parks drove 20 kilometres...

Hill v Baxter, Kilmuir, LC, articulated the necessity of eliminating automatism, defined as "the existence in any person of behaviour of which he is unaware...

However, this will normally only arise to negate the defence case when automatism or diminished responsibility is in issue. In practical terms, the defence...

with flexibility. As further described in articles available online. Automatism is a state where the muscles act without any control by the mind, or with...

fruit, etc.) slightly reduces the risk of highway hypnosis. Automaticity Automatism (law) Muscle memory Microsleep Selective hearing Sleep-deprived driving...

practice of surrealist creative production taking, or purporting to take, automatism to its most absurd limits. In their 1945 statement Dialectique de la Dialectique...

procured by the acts of automatism when the victim is in a state of trance falls under the heading of unconscious fraud. Automatism can be practised on a...

Mental disorder (Insanity) Diminished responsibility Intoxication Infancy Automatism Alibi Consent Mistake Duress Age Necessity Provocation Self-defense False...

Psychiatry Principles Obligatory Dangerousness Criterion Duty to protect Automatism Currently regulated medical interventions Psychoactive drugs Castration...

Mental disorder (Insanity) Diminished responsibility Intoxication Infancy Automatism Alibi Consent Mistake Duress Age Necessity Provocation Self-defense False...

have a speech automatism (also called recurring or recurrent utterance). These speech automatisms can be repeated lexical speech automatisms; e.g., modalisations...

motor, or sensory functions. Some involuntary movements are known as "Automatism". This correlates with the ideomotor phenomenon because both rely on unconscious...

unconsciousness may entitle the criminal defendant to the defense of automatism, i.e. a state without control of one's own actions, an excusing condition...

Secession Sedition Subversion Defenses to liability Actual innocence Automatism Consent Defense of property Diminished responsibility Duress Entrapment...

leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the use of the defence of automatism in a criminal trial. In 1993, Bert Stone married Donna Stone and they...

Secession Sedition Subversion Defenses to liability Actual innocence Automatism Consent Defense of property Diminished responsibility Duress Entrapment...

Mental disorder (Insanity) Diminished responsibility Intoxication Infancy Automatism Alibi Consent Mistake Duress Age Necessity Provocation Self-defense False...