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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 |
Jim would engage in a series of toxic communication patterns such as mocking, name calling, lying, and playing mind games. Coming from a senior citizen, it was especially surprising, as this behavior is more common among younger people, not supposedly mature therapists with supposed life experience. Perhaps, through life experience, he figured out how to get away with mocking, name calling, demeaning, and building a cult following around himself?
This fraud of a therapist taught us to do all the wrong stuff: show middle finger randomly just cause you feel like it, demean people, manipulate, deprive, neglect, overstep boundaries, induce fake emotions, yell, go around people, comment on people, oppose them, push through stuff that nobody needs because I am desperate and unhappy, unhappy stuff, relating by wallowing in depression, etc. If you told him that, he would angry and coerce you into taking your words back saying you are endangering other people's therapy if you... read more
Yes, you should have believed him when he said he is manipulative, sadistic, and really a marketing company focused on recruiting and retaining patients any way possible without ethics.
Jim’s advice was insane: Don’t give your aunt a gift for her birthday Don’t congratulate your aunt with her birthday Don’t loan your mom money Confront strangers Be inappropriately honest during an interview Distance yourself from your parents for no good reason - I’m such an idiot that I went ahead and followed Dr Leone’s advice. The man is self admittedly hypo manic, manipulative and sadistic - qualities disqualifying him from the profession he falsely presents to be a great fit for (grandiosity).
Yes, my relative who is a psychiatrist at a jail says he sees people like Jim a lot and that Jim's line of talk with 'You have father issues and you see me as your father and so you have to work your issues through me' is scarily devious and insidious and that many of the inmates try to trick him and other staff using similar tricks as Jim used to be a shark toward his patients.
I would classify Dr Leone as a psychopath who either manipulates people or harasses them. Both are fake and just attention seeking on his part. I wish I had actually learned to talk in a soothing and respectful problem-solving wise way instead of his perverse and disordered ways.
A friend knew about me being in Dr Leone's group and told me I was in a cult and am very gullible to be fooled by him, but I thought the group was helpful about challenging your lifestyle and making you change than being a cult. I thought had my friend also joined the group, Leon would attack the friend for being lazy and not learning mature adult skills and taking risks out of his comfort zone, so I thought the friend was lazy and could actually go to the group and get attacked and be forced to question and learn new things... read more
So it was the wrong group for us despite him repeatedly saying it was 'the perfect place'. With support and communication instruction along with wise life advice, we could have had more normal success in another group. Jim's group was akin to being in Jehovas Witnesses, but actually Leon's group is actually closest to Scientology - with his special 'technology' to get through life, charming and brain washing to get you in, etc.
Yep.. the effect of being exposed to Dr Leone was that you started faking emotions, forcing relationships in a fake psychopathic way, practicing and accepting boundary violations, sabotaging people, being alienated angry and sadistic, lashing out when you feel like it as a solution.. he ruined so many lives while telling people he was doing the opposite.
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