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