The most frequent example of self-induced automatism is intoxication arising from the voluntary ingestion of alcohol or proscribed drugs. |
He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence. |
Like most surrealist practices, automatism is only secondarily a style or compositional method. |
This instruction will have to be modified where the accused has a legal burden of proof, such as for mental disorder or non-insane automatism. |
But then there are traces of automatism present which are not to be found in Phinuit. |
I became his noble valet, reduced to even greater humiliations, and even now I am reduced to verbal automatism in thrall to his deity. |