Automatism: Encyclopedia - Automatism

The word automatism is used is several contexts: In medicine, automatism or automatic behavior, refers to spontaneous, involuntary speech or action, without conscious self-control or self-censorship. Mediumistic automatism, in which speech, writing or behaviour produced is purported to be communicated from ghosts, spirits or the like, channeling through a psychic or medium Surrealist automatism is an artistic technique of spontaneous writing, drawing, or

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