1924 A. A. Brill tr. E. Bleuler ii. 153 The echopractic patients imitate whatever strikes them in the actions or words of their surroundings... It is partly a question of hysteria-like mechanism..and partly a matter of an incapacity to get away from a conceived idea, so that instead of giving an answer the question is repeated, or instead of a new action the preceding act is imitated (organic echolalias and echopraxias).