This article deals with 'romantic affairs' between students and mentors or senior faculty. A major theme however is something I can relate to; the absolute lack of objective criticism for the thesis/dissertation. I found both my MS and PhD advisors could not care less about my thesis or my career. I was simply cannon fodder to do experiments. No surprise that I'd rather not have anything to do with them (but I still need them for letters of recommendation). It's probably a pretty common occurance. Unless you are a superstar, you can forget about any academic support from your advisor; they just don't care. If you are going to make it in the world, you have to do it yourself, and usually against their wishes, since their wishes often involve things that are detrimental to your career (such as 'you should leave the institution to pursue your PhD' 'you should not continue the project and try to get a paper out of it' etc).

Anyway. I'm trying hard to get my paper published so i can move on to other things.