Hi,
I haven't been on here in a while. I wrote a while ago when I first started grad school in clinical psych in the fall and was having issues with my advisor. Well, it has not gotten better. She seemed like such a good person to work for when I was applying, but now she seems like a pretty cold person. She's abrupt, sometimes obnoxious and sometimes even inappropriate. I have tried talking to her and letting her know what I feel (while still being respectful and open to ideas) -- I told her I feel there's a tension between us that I wish weren't there.
I have these ideas for research that I feel all excited about, and she either outright shuts me down or she does so passive-aggressively. I asked her a couple questions that apparently were psychodynamic questions, so now she has labeled me the psychoanalyst in the lab. I feel like she hardly knows me, but she judges me a lot and says very closed-minded and black and white things. She's very hot and cold.
Is it a terribly bad idea to try and transfer to another phd program? I keep thinking back to the decision last year of what school to go to, and I feel full of regret. I don't really like to program that much -- even thought it's a well known school, I feel like the faculty don't always really care if we're learning, and the classes aren't really all that great. I thought the school was very organized, but it turns out it's just rigid. I have found some other students and a couple faculty members that I like, which feels good, but I still don't know if that out ways the negative. I really thought I would like graduate school, but it seems to just suck. I know I want to be a psychologist, and so I will hang in there if I have to. My question is, do I have to? Do PhD clinical grad students transfer schools? How would I go about doing that?