Automatism (law) - Wikipedia Automatism can be seen variously as lack of voluntariness, lack of culpability (unconsciousness) or excuse Automatism means that the defendant was not aware of their actions when making the particular movements that constituted the illegal act
Automatism Definition | Legal Glossary | LexisNexis What does Automatism mean? An act or acts carried out while a person can be said to lack the capacity to make independent rational decisions or lacks the animus to prevent themselves from carrying out an act
Automatism - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics Automatism was defined by Lord Denning ‘an act which is done by the muscles without any control by the mind, such as a spasm, a reflex action or a convulsion; or an act done by a person who is not conscious of what he is doing, such as an act done while suffering a concussion or sleepwalking’
Automatism - Tate Automatism as a term is borrowed from physiology, where it describes bodily movements that are not consciously controlled like breathing or sleepwalking Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud used free association and automatic drawing or writing to explore the unconscious mind of his patients Freud’s ideas strongly influenced French poet André Breton who launched the surrealist movement in 1924
AUTOMATISM Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Automatism definition: the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action See examples of AUTOMATISM used in a sentence
APA Dictionary of Psychology It may be motor or verbal and ranges from simple repetitive acts, such as lipsmacking or repeatedly using the same phrase (e g , as it were), to complex activities, such as sleepwalking and automatic writing Automatism is seen in several disorders, including catatonic schizophrenia and complex partial seizures
Automatism (medicine) - Wikipedia Automatism is a set of brief unconscious or automatic behaviors, [1] typically at least several seconds or minutes, while the subject is unaware of actions This type of automatic behavior often occurs in certain types of epilepsy, such as complex partial seizures in those with temporal lobe epilepsy, [2] or as a side effect of particular