Monk

Monk is a television show that shows on USA on Friday at 9/8c. The show was created by Andy Breckman. It stars Tony Shalhoub as the character Adrian Monk. Adrian Monk is a brilliant San Francisco detective. Monk suffers from intensified obsessive compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the murder of his wife, Trudy. The murder of his wife and his inability to solve her murder case has made his condition worse to the point where Monk finds it impossible to function in society without assistance. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. He works as a consultant for the police department with the help of his assistant, until he can be reinstated.

The television series Monk fits in very well with a lot of what we have learned throughout our psychology book. Adrian Monk suffers from a number of various phobias. Altogether he has 312 phobias with new phobias developing at random times. This fits in with Chapter 14 in our book. The book discuses three different types of phobias that relate to Monk; social phobias, specific phobias, and agoraphobia. Monk also has the disorder called obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) which is discussed in chapter 14 again in our books. Another relatable characteristic that Monk has to our books is his photographic memory. This is discussed in chapter 6 section 2. The book states that, “Eidetic imagery is the ability to access a visual memory over a long period of time; although the popular term photographic memory is often used to mean this rare ability”.