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automatic writing

automatic writing Automatic writing is writing produced without the writer’s full conscious participation, so that words or sentences seem to be formed by themselves.

Automatic writing is writing produced without the writer’s full conscious participation, so that words or sentences seem to be formed by themselves. In historical psychology, it was treated as a complex kind of automatic movement seen both in some nervous disorders and in otherwise healthy people, with no settled explanation for how it occurs.