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saddled with innumerable compulsions and phobias.
Believe it or not, the show Monk is actually a comedy. It turns out that when you combine a
miserable, life-crippling disability with an INTJ's sense of humor, independent spirit, and
stubbornness, it isn't nearly as gloomy as you would expect. Much of the humor in the show
derives from Monk's persistence in attempting to conform the outside world to his inner vision of
orthogonal perfection.
• He would notice that the odometer read 999999 and try to get it to 1000000 by driving back
and forth, back and forth...while on a stakeout.
• He hurt his hand and had to get a bandage. So then he got a second bandage on his other
hand so that they would be symmetrical.
• When you vacuum the carpet, it leaves lines behind. For Monk, it was important that the
lines be straight and form 90º angles to the walls.
• Once, when trying to rescue his brother from a burning house, he paused, coughing on
smoke, to straighten some disarrayed books.
• He separated his foods and ate them from different plates.
It might seem like there was nothing good about Monk's problems. However, this tells only half of
the story; in fact, the same traits that fueled his OCPD also fueled his detective abilities. Monk
always described his situation with the statement, "It's a gift...and a curse," because the same
powers that enabled him to do great detective work also formed the basis of his OCD/OCDC. The
gift vs. curse dilemma is a theme in type and mental health.
Detecting Style
Monk had a highly intuitive detection style. He was particularly noted for being able to see
connections between things that seemed on the surface to be unrelated. For instance, he would
observe that someone who was tall committed a crime in one area, then connect this fact to that
another, much different crime was committed by a tall man in a different area. The sensing police
would point out to him that there were tons of tall criminals in the world, and that was a connection
between the two crimes was improbable. But to Monk's intuition, this was enough to go on.
In another case, he believed that a murderer was trying to prevent him from connecting two
disparate articles in a newspaper which could incriminate when put together. As Monk speculated,
"He [the murderer] knew I was the only one who could possibly see the connection between them."
(The newspaper theory turned out to be spurious, but Monk actually did solve several other,
unrelated crimes by studying the paper.) On another occasion, he figured out that two very different
murders were connected because the serial numbers on the dollar bills used in each murder were
sequential. His intuitive ability to make connections was a key part of his detection abilities.
Yet, seemingly in contradiction to this, he also noted minute physical details, i.e. the serial numbers.
One of the arguments one often hears in discussions over the type of famous detectives is, "They
can't be an intuitive because they notice details." This is true, to an extent; Hennessy (1999) noted
that sensor police officers tend to be better at collecting evidence at a crime scene than intuitive
officers. However, a Rational will notice whatever they have trained themselves to look for in order
to pursue their current subject of interest. I, a geologically trained intuitive, can see all kinds of
things in a rock that an average sensor would not notice. An intuitive archaeologist will notice
details like a dead fly lying behind the door of a tomb because these details hold significance when
placed in the context of a larger body of knowledge. Such "details" do not seem like the purview of