Hi Tipsters: This week's episode of Monk featured Monk having a case of amnesia. I thought I might use it for my intro course--both for the OCD components and the amnesia, but I suspect that there was more wrong than right with the amnesia, but I don't know enough about amnesia to know.
In the episode he receives as severe blow to the head and is tossed in the back of a flatbed truck (already a gross inaccuracy because the driver did not check his load before getting in the cab and pulling away...but that's not psychology stuff). So eventually the truck stops, Monk wakes up in another town and he doesn't know who is he. His semantic memory is perfect but his episodic memory is not; although he does still have OCD behaviors, but when questionned about them makes up excuses. In one scene he separates all his food into separeate piles and when asked why he is doing that he says it's a religious ritual. Anyway, that aside, how does the course of amnesia usually go? Also, at one point, back at the office, his psychiatrist is consulting with the police on Monk missing status in his usual life and says he would be having a dissociative episode. Now that sounds totally wrong to me. Right? A little edification on the usual course of amnesia please. Thanks Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
