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James P. Leone, PhD
- Psychologists
- Cambridge, MA
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Location details
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 |
Right! While he presents himself as a therapist, my time with him felt more like being drawn into a personal belief system or even a kind of cult. He uses therapy language and seems to know how to talk the talk, but mixes real therapeutic ideas with his own personal opinions and manipulative tactics. This made me feel confused, second-guessing myself, and unsure of what was actually helpful or harmful. Leone gives off a “nice guy” image, especially around women, but over time it felt more like a performance than genuine car... read more
right!..the rat created a cult out of people who thought Group Therapy for anxiety, depression, relationships and social skills..he misrepresented himself as a relationship teacher, but encouraged and instructed toxic harmful inappropriate stuff and charged money for it.
right!.. the duty of a provider is to protect the patient from their weaknesses, not take advantage of them. the fact rat said he will abuse patients if he sees them not protesting it, shows he has no remorse or morals. a fake guy and a social criminal.
Definitely shame on Dr Leone...acting like he knows something that can help and giving awfully incorrect advice to people who are looking for TRUSTED advice is a violation of trust, ethics, malpractice and exploitation. We met a provider who emotionally manipulated us, mislead us, gave us incorrect advice, never took actual responsibility for it beyond shedding seeming guilt off his shoulders, and targeted us with controlling NLP style tactics. Except as a psychopath expecting him to feel remorse or shame is a fool's errand... read more
Rat encouraged social behavior that violates boundaries and makes you look bad; I started making risky Facebook posts and being creepy to girls saying unnatural things to them just to push the boundaries as an experiment. I started taking risks and haphazardly messaging girls which then labeled me as a creep. I was soooo much better with girls before the rat group. I was stupid, but I wasn't HARMFUL. I started doing socially harmful things that violated boundaries and did not make intuitive sense to me. It was like an indu... read more
Yes, Jim, since childhood and through therapist training, was doing this to gain CONTROL over people and it sadly worked very well for him. He figured out toxic harmful ways to control people to get where he wants in life at their expense and without being recognized - a covert parasite! As a psychopath, he is unable to bond like others do, so he resorted to essentially engaging in sales tactics 24/7 to create a semblance of normalcy in his life to manipulate people to react to him like he had normal relationships. This ... read more
It is almost like Leon was justifying his own toxic family impulses using therapy on us like passing off his own trauma and wacky interpersonal ideas - saying whatever to gain power over people and very much potentially wanting to poison people's lives from the inside. Say you reported to him that his advise didn't work - he wouldn't genuinely be curious and wanting to adapt his advice to something that worked for you, no, he would mock, change the subject, rationalize, gaslight, redirect, do a fake apology - without a real... read more
Yes again to summarize it.. I had therapy with this decades long scammer who was a literal psychopath himself despite being licensed and seemingly well respected.. I ended up becoming unable to trust and bond with people anymore and ended up abusing people around me due to him teaching this to me. He told me to send elderly people elsewhere if they ask me for help, to not give patients bedpans if they annoy the nurse, to tell my grandma she is unpleasant despite advanced age and helplessness, to undermine my own mom, and m... read more
This mentions therapy and 100% matches my experience - https://youtu.be/rkfOEcHnU58?si=hPfjPN2rEiDRN-Vj
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