Hi fellow PhD,

for more than 4 months preparing for my PhD proposal defence, I meet my SV weekly and discuss with him about the proposal, he order me to make some formality corrections. Every time I try to discuss with him the main idea of the proposal, he starts to deviate away. Until I finished 4 months, in the last meeting while we were discussing about some formalities of the proposal, I tried to orient the discussion toward the main idea or the methodology. Suddenly he said to me "take this new title of the proposal, its better than the existing one", I got shock and asked him "so you need me to change the whole proposal", he became angry and replied "changing the title doesn't mean changing the whole proposal". Actually the new title is his PhD thesis title, I have his PhD thesis, and completely different from the idea and title of my proposal. I tried to discuss with him about the difference, but he showed that he doesn't want to continue the meeting, and asked me to make the correction and come back after finishing that "unknown modifications". So now I don't know what I should do. What I realized, that my SV doesn't know the idea of the proposal (he gave me the idea, by the way), and doesn't want to show me that he made a mistake in supervision.

I am now frustrated from this situation.

Sorry about long post. I am Just wondering whether this situation is normal or not

Thanks,