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875 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
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Yes. What you experienced was not a typical mental health experience, but more akin to a domestic violence and business fraud situation.
Yes he would misconstrue what you said and use it gaslight you; misrepresented the kind of demographic who was in his groups during the initial session; would lie, humiliate, demean, and mock people and take it upon himself to do this APA prohibited unethical behavior is airing it was allegedly for your own good; untrustworthy individual with personal empathy, manipulating and abuse issues who should not have been in therapy in the first place.
Forgot to add, people stay in his group because they start wanting to be the fixer of a manipulator. Trying to change and fix the manipulator is futile. Trying to out manipulate a manipulator is futile. They like what they are doing and have no other desirable and acceptable way to operate in the world. You just make them angry and make them manipulate you in other ways. I saw people giving up and sitting in his office and thinking they are the fixer of him. I myself keep thinking I could have talked to him about him being... read more
When you brought up Jim being abusive and manipulative (by his own brazen admission!), he would get angry and shift to discussing your feelings, not because of therapy (that was a pretense), but really because his personality and behavior were inappropriate, unprofessional, unethical and he did not want people to realize that or to take appropriate action (walking out and reporting him). The focus was on you being honest, and him manipulating and abusing you. That was the dynamic he desired and was passing off as therapy.
I went away for a group approved vacation for two weeks and Leon started blowing up my phone telling me to come back. Literal cult!
People always think of loving bombing as him saying nice things. More often he did “hate bombing” and acted so nuts we were terrified to do anything and just gave in. That’s what the “I have to wrestle with you” and “you have too many defense you have to drop” was about - convincing you to let him abuse into submission so he can then manipulate and abuse you for his own personal needs - not any legitimate mental healthy therapy method. Just personal abuse!
His therapy group would coerce that you will not achieve your life goals, that you are missing out on good stuff ahead of you, that people in the group would love to have you there and will go crazy over you, and that you’re endangering others therapy needs and disrupting the group or disrespecting it by calling out the guy who ran it. I can see the manipulation inc crustal light now. He hit me with the instant friendship thing with “the women in the group will go crazy over you” and then would pretend to be okay with crit... read more
You only have 3 years to sue him for emotional abuse and violating the APA from the time of the injury though. The Board of Psychologists wont do anything since he didn't touch, steal or violate HIPPA. They don't care about anything else - apparently he took copious (fake) notes.
So this Mr Leon I was seeing for group therapy 10 years ago was acting way outside of his professional bounds - humiliating, demeaning, saying incorrect false things, demeaning in front of others, mocking, manipulating, doing sadistic things - and being delusional about it saying that it’s therapy - running a cult-like Attack Therapy group that has been banned by the APA due to being harmful - without consent and not telling people about it; these things were not on the sign up sheet people signed; then perpetrating a fraud... read more
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