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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 | |
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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
When we talked about people who could actually be competition for Leon's power over us, he called them jerks and told us to abuse them and not to think about them. This is a predatory man!
Saying stuff like 'We missed you!' and 'you should say hello and goodbye when you leave and warn when you won't show up because you are learnig about relationships.' umm.. nope. this is all manipulative pressure and is fake and meant to confuse and bond you to the followers idealizing one toxic short old man. same dynamic as his psychopath dating advice!
Yep, by taking advice from Leon most likely you learned to interact with others using self destructive cruelty. Which is horrifying!
For a therapy-social skills group, the dynamic was the opposite. When people weren't happy, did not have interesting conversation, were not friendly, inviting, and did not even make an effort to feint it, and did not try to include me in their discussion - this should have been the tell-tale sign that this group leads to nowhere. Lets say you are a BS artist looking to make a buck out of people. You have little useful proven advice. You can create an impression on people by saying, 'XYZ (pick something commonly accepted) is... read more
Yes, Jim did all the bad unethical things mentioned in this video: https://youtu.be/cL5zftipAY0?si=OKWxnKW_0bS1kbt6
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