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James P. Leone, PhD - Cambridge, MA
- Psychologists
- Cambridge, MA
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875 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Get directions| Weekday | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
So after seeing him, and wondering what happened to you and how to move forward, look up a lecture titled, 'Reclaiming Yourself After A Relationship With A Character Disturbed Person'..
Narcissists use 300+ manipulation tactics. Leon just collected and invented his own tactics. He use like one tactic per sentence. Every sentence - a new manipulation tactic. All unethical and harmful. He did this: charm, project warmth, impress, praise, make promises, provide explanation brainwashing someone into believing a fake explanation he made, gain trust, set two people against one another, create intimacy between two people, make someone intrigued with “you have a secret admirer or hater in group", drive against fam... read more
A personality disordered therapist. We've been seeing a therapist who has a personality disorder and forces his clients to emulate it. Wow.
He was a person abusing his authority as a licensed psychotherapist, and acting as a narcissist, then snaking his way out of it (by lying, playing mind games, using distractions, theatrics, gaslighting) when people confronted him. It was like clockwork. An educated client told him he is an obviously bad person and his therapy was not good and not needed, and he started attacking that person with more therapy as a distraction and to try to hook them back in.
100% cult! The snake (Leon) was building a 1970s style cult by suggesting we go to a bar and socialise with each other. He also got two group members to inter-marry. So it’s a group with an extremist group therapy ideology, alienated from friends and family, who come to have drama with each other once a week with him at the helm. Very sick and disturbing!
As a client unaware of narcissism and likely in therapy thanks to a parent or 2 being a narcissist you will be stabbed very hard in the back while the narcissistic therapist manipulates their way out of accountability. Plus there is this asinine culture where if you complain about a therapist someone will go "you didn't like what you heard" as if what you "heard" is automatically "hard truth" - when people are this thumpably stupid it's an open goal for narcissists to win by becoming therapists as if the process of training... read more
Basically, we have come to this conclusion as a psychological profile of this guy. He was neglected and abused by his parents and siblings as a child - a childhood that tends to result in someone developing narcissism and psychopathy. He did not learn to relate to people normally, because nobody would listen to him in his family. Instead of communicating, he learned to manipulate people. Then he got into psychology and used manipulation on his therapy clients to fulfill his personal needs. We are not even sure he realizes th... read more
Here is another lecture that explains the dynamics of what the guy seems to use on people from what I experienced and observed: https://www.youtube.com/live/hqI1FHnr1mQ?si=oZW17FxDQdPCkcuF
That guy kind of set me up to get humiliated in his groups and he did it to others too! Very ‘skillfully.’ He told me ‘the women in the group will go crazy over you’ during my initial pre-group consultation using women to try to lure me to join his cash cow group. I remember, second group, after Leone’s guidance, one group member told me, ‘I just want to bash your head off. You annoy me so much. You remind me of my ex boyfriend.' It was obvious they did not like or care for me and were saying how I annoy them and they have ... read more
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