ABSTRACT
As I said before, I got a pretty good grounding in psychiatry as a student. Still, after forty-odd years, you get a bit rusty, so I asked this young Saudi psychiatrist working in the lab, the one who described the cheese effect following sheep’s eyes, to give me a brush-up on life events in depressive illness. He said, ‘Er, well, life events – you know, birth, castration, death
