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James P. Leone, PhD
- Healthcare
- Cambridge, MA
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Location details
875 Massachusetts Ave, 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 |
Yes, Leon advice is all wrong! You have to do the opposite of everything he taught. If you don’t manipulate and make an effort to be supportive and polite to people - you gain so many allies in family and work. Sweating all the stuff he told people to worry about just isn’t necessary and creates problems because you start seeing problems and growing them. It’s like a self delusional cult of perverse frustration and manipulation for the sake of it. But that’s what you get if you have a potentially mentally ill person working ... read more
Exactly ! Jim would engage in bullying and prompt his followers to do so. He called it - “wrestling with a person or breaking them down.” It would be during first few sessions and not during intake, and was quite unexpected. He seemed to believe that meanness was a shortcut. I had never seen him be upset at someone getting hurt and he seemed to get excited instead. Like he thought it was normal for people to abuse each other. Only time he got visibly upset was when he was personally criticised. He rarely stepped in to stop ... read more
Leon was devious and dismissive, that he told me that I am essentially learning positive coping skills in his group and that the reason my mom and grandma dislike him - is not that he is an abusive liar spewing harmful BS and exploiting people - but it was my mom and grandma who used negative coping strategies and they did not like the positive ones I was learning in his group and wanted to shut me down. And while it is partially true that my mom and grandma have negative coping strategies, the reason they did not like him w... read more
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
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