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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
We as good people project our intentions onto Leone. A man who found your weakness and proceeding to schoolyard-bully you and then encourage others to jump in tormenting you as well is not attempting to help you in good faith. We would attempt to help a client in good faith as we are doing with each other in this email chain. We project this onto Leone, not realizing he may be… a totally different person without the same intentions toward us. And he may have different intentions such as exploitation instead of help. We... read more
Leon is like an evil abusive George from Seinfeld who also plays mind games and uses various manipulation tactics - the damage comes from us expecting it to be therapy and accepting the abuse as guidance. I found that Leon couldn’t give appropriate advice about job search and networking for example. His advice about what to say in an interview or to elderly clients at work seeking assistance was the opposite of what you should do. In my opinion, he is an inappropriate, dishonest, inept, abusive therapist who plays mind ga... read more
It seems Leon’s communication tips centred around triggering, manipulating, abusing and inappropriately info dumping-over sharing-lashing out at people using topics that only belong in a psychologists office and blindly ignoring obvious boundaries - the exact opposite of what normal everyday basic social skills are. And if you copy Jim’s demeanor - people will see you for the emotional abuse and manipulation and will not like you or trust you or enjoy being around you. And Dr Leone’s fraudulent promise is that through ina... read more
Dr? Leone's advice to have conflicts, push away my parents as a means to self progress were the opposite of what appropriate therapists advice, such as seeking self growth from inside yourself or through relationships with people who help you grow. Pushing people away who are not harmful is very bad advice from Dr Leone especially with your parents who are your primary means of support for basics like housing and finances and just you know.. people you love and care about. Conflicts cause stress and hurt and don't achieve an... read more
Jim would charm, then casually verbally and emotionally abuse you, then throw a fit and a temper tantrum if you set limits or called his behavior into question.
After Leon, I began to guard and pick what thoughts I shared with people. It kept people confused and at a distance and was form of abuse to them, since before Leon I used to share what I thought. I then started repeating what Leon said to people word for word as an attempt to generate my own thoughts to people. I also started pulling a “sadistic” trick where I saw what people were counting on doing and blocked, undermined, withheld or did the opposite which left them hurt and confused. Leon may be an extremely toxic an... read more
Verbal, situational and emotional abuse leads to shut down and retaliation. By then telling people to be open and honest, Jim taught clients to accept abuse and bond to the abuser. This is why you lose trust in people after group since the rat made you experience a trust-abuse cycle and then told you to ignore your gut feeling and red flag detector about it because “therapy.” Naturally you felt that trusting people wasn’t safe after that group experience and stayed distant or copied the abuse response that he modelled. He th... read more
I would characterize many of Leon's comments as 'caustic'. He would take turns abusing people he knew were bonded to him and would no leave him. He would say things with contempt that were uncalled for like 'So you want the other person to go down the same bad path you did with this type of advice?' or 'Oh, don't be snarky!' He would mock people and use sarcasm. There was a lot of abuse and he kept normalizing it as therapy or him very confident and trying to communicate things to you. But it was inappropriate for a therapis... read more
The standard advice is literally the opposite and Leon did it regularly over and over and not just in the office setting, he told us to tell girls about themselves in order to seduce them: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-tell-someone-about-themselves-in-a-nice-way-For-example-people-who-talk-too-much-share-too-much-or-do-anything-that-might-cause-the-average-person-to-avoid-them He told me to accuse a girl on on the first date of 'being aggressive' and to put her on the spot and interrogate her as to why - forcing her to d... read more
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