“He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.”

“Automatic writing was one activity that the surrealists housed under the rubric of psychic automatism.”

“The most frequent example of self-induced automatism is intoxication arising from the voluntary ingestion of alcohol or proscribed drugs.”

“To the student of automatisms, of course, all this irresistibly suggests the automatist's own subliminal handiwork.”

“Suppose that a discarnate spirit, in temporary possession of a living organism, is impelling it to motor automatisms.”

“Six patients described an aura, and three were noted to have automatisms.”