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automatism : 1. (in medicine; automatic behavior) refers to spontaneous, involuntary speech or action, without conscious self-control or self-censorship.
2. (in art; surrealist automatism) is an artistic technique of spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.
3. (in legal) is the state of acting involuntarily, as in sleepwalking.
4. (in parapsychology; mediumistic automatism) is the practice of a medium receiving supernatural messages from ghosts, spirits or the like, the expression of such messages (in speech, writing or drawings) lacking conscious control or intervention by the medium.
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