Automatism

Automatism may refer to:

• Automatic behavior, spontaneous verbal or motor behavior
• Automatism (law), a defense used in criminal law
• Automatism (toxicology), when an individual repeatedly takes a medication because the individual forgets previous doses
• Automatic writing, the process, or product, of writing material that does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer
• Surrealist automatism, an art technique
• Automatism (medicine), repetitive unconscious gestures, such as lip smacking, in certain types of epilepsy

See also

• Automatic (disambiguation)