Automatism
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Automatism may refer to:
- Automatic behavior, spontaneous verbal or motor behavior
- Automatism (toxicology), when an individual repeatedly takes a medication because the individual forgets previous doses, potentially leading to a drug overdose
- Surrealist automatism, an art technique
- Automatism (law), a defence to liability. See also Automatism (case law)
- Automatic behavior, an act performed unconsciously. Defendants have been found innocent due to an automatism defense (i.e., homicide while sleepwalking).*sited from the forensic psychology dictionary which can be found at the following web adress- http://www.uplink.com.au/lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc20.html