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James P. Leone, PhD
- Psychologists
- Cambridge, MA
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875 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Get directions| Weekday | Schedule | Status |
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| Mon | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Tue | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Wed | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Thu | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Fri | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Sat | Closed | |
| Sun | Closed |
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
Humiliation, sadism, manipulation, experiments - and these are just things he admitted to - wasn’t in the group sign up sheet with rules. Sounds like the rules were for the clients, but for him it was anything was allowed. Including stuff banned by the APA and Board of Psychologists.
He demeaned a member of the group in front of other members of the group by calling them pathetic….this is not mental health therapy. This 40-year career arrogant therapist has preyed on the weak and never crossed someone with enough pride or spite.
Yes - devious, abusive, and teaching abuse. Presenting abuse as therapy. Being devious with patients while telling them to be open and honest, fishing out vulnerabilities they shared, and using what they shared to further manipulate and humiliate them. That was some clients' main complaint to him. And he said apparently the therapy 'process' was Leon being devious, abusive, and manipulative and us letting him do it, and if we didn't like it, we were problematic patients who weren't ready to do the 'work' - which was us telli... read more
Yes, the result of his cuing and direct instruction, I went from a polite, diplomatic and well liked person - to one who lashes out, is quick to abuse, goes around people's backs (like Leon did in group all the time), unfairly unleashes negative emotions and their own issues on people, is too arrogant to see that, and is seeking an abusive relationship one that mirrors their patient-Leon relationship with Leon abusing them and them being submissive and taking it, believing it, and coming back to him.
Some of the tactics he modelled-used-instructed: 1. catching people off guard 2. lashing out freely without regard for consequences 3. not thinking before you speak 4. being openly abusive to people and saying it somehow 'may be good' 5. imagining-seeking-suspecting incestuous, paranoid, conniving secret psychological plots against you among immediate family members 6. confronting people 7. not aiming to say things in a tactful and gentle manner 8. being stupidly arrogant about your own incorrect beliefs and attitudes 9. des... read more
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