Word: automatisme
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Insanity v. Sanity filled the final days of the trial. From Los Angeles Drs. Thomas James Orbison and Edward Huntington Williams, frequent participants in Pacific Coast criminal trials, were summoned to testify for the defense. Alienist Orbison swore that Lieut. Massie was suffering from "delirium with ambulatory automatism" at the...
At Ilkeston, England, one William Knighton, miner, killed his mother with unwonted despatch and skill. He knew neither how nor why he came to kill her, he explained to the officers who arrested him, only that he found himself committing the murder. Because his explanation jibes with psychologists' theory...
Last week, an article in the Boston Herald (allegedly published to anticipate an article in the November Atlantic Monthly) gave as the decision of a minority of the scientists the theory that, in all good faith, Margery had exhibited powers of hypnosis and automatism only; nothing inexplicable or supernormal. Even...
Dr. W. B. Carpenter of England is to give two courses of six lectures each before the Lowell Institute, beginning next Monday. The courses will treat of "The Physical Geography of the Deep Sea" and of "The Doctrine of Human Automatism."