TY - JOUR AU - Lean, Elisabeth PY - 2020/10/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Post-PhD: Reflections on Coming to Terms with the End of a Journey JF - Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping JA - Reflections VL - 26 IS - 3 SE - DO - UR - https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/1796 SP - 102-110 AB - <p>This article is a narrative of my lived experience in coming to terms with the end of completing a doctorate in social work. I detail how what are assumed to be two happy occasions—defending a dissertation and graduating with a doctorate—left me with little cause for celebration. I share how both of these events instead culminated in a sense of loss surrounding my identity.</p> ER -