Just came across this website last week unfortunately - four years into my humanties PHD now and chewing the carpet in desperation of getting this albatross out of my life. Hindsight is a great thing but if I had taken a longer and more adult view at this supervisor set-up in advance - and the unatural level of claustrophobia that this relationship of course entails - I would not have touched this kind of post-graduate qualification with a bargepole. I truly empathise with the raft of posters enduring similar stonewalling that has no connectivity with the modern world and the crazed pace of 21st century life - but then again after massive outlays in money and time who wants to bring it to closure without a lifetime of regret ahead? It would also appear to me that all research students respresent are sops for academics' frenzied egos. I see the whole experience essentially as a huge misjudgement on my part and as having added literally nothing to my employability.