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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 |
Jim’s MO was to charm you during the intake session and then unexpectedly proceed to demean you during the first two group sessions. This trauma bonded people. He would guide people in his group to be mad and aggressive towards and then sort of claim that it wasn’t him but that’s like what “the group” thought about you. He would coerce you to be in his group trying to get you to quit college to fill his need for a group roster. And he would lead people on whom he had no ability to help. Let me be clear - he taught people the... read more
licensed psychologist who was providing group therapy but was covertly practicing Attack Therapy on his patients - charming, demeaning, isolating, bonding, misleading, promising them things - like his own personal cult. he was married to a dean of a social work college and his wife specialized in research and helping women with... trauma of all things. very messed up. he would be vague and say 'talk therapy' and 'relationships and emotions' when asked what therapy modality he practiced. he kept some patients for 20 years cal... read more
yes.. essentially when i first saw 'Jim' - he told me it is okay to grope girls at school, then he said women in his group will go crazy over me, then he arranged for me to get humiliated and for the women there to openly aggress against me, then he called me toxic, then said me distancing from my family will make me more successful, said his group is the perfect place to work on my social issues, then said i should mourn my social life, then said his group is adult day care for low functioning adults, then told me to abuse ... read more
Yes, Leone is dangerous, abusive and narcissistic. He has been reported several times, but the fact he took so many notes - he somehow falls through the cracks and avoids meaningful action against his psychologist's license. He can do with his patients anything he wants pretty much as long as he doesn't touch them. Him flirting with female patients and encouraging them to tell him explicit sexual details is very telling in my opinion.
Leone would purposely fish out for low functioning people and mislead, mistreat and delude them, while letting high functioning people leave calling them 'crazy' and 'clueless about emotions' if they criticized him on their way out. It is hard to believe that his wife is a professor who lectures about trauma of all things. Truly a sick couple in my opinion!
Exactly! Why would anyone want to put up with narcissistic and predatory behavior in a therapist??
Leone kept having you explain yourself, then when you told him that he is being harmful and unethical - he would use what you said to undermine you doing your own due diligence on him and flipped things and played victim. Like.. ‘so you feel my group is bad? Really explain yourself.’ Then.. ‘you are XYZ’ and launch an attack against you and then called it therapy and him guiding people into it and called him abusing you - “hard work for you.” If you called him out on acting outside the scope of his license and harming people... read more
Yes, Leon used the pretense of therapy to pull you into a narcissistic relationship with him - where he was personally using and abusing you for his own needs, and coerced you into not speaking up about his transgressions by telling you that calling him out would ruin therapy for other people or yourself, and the way to reach your hopes and goals was to suspend your own due diligence and blindly follow him, and that emotional and verbal abuse wasn’t abuse but “hard work instead of a feel good support group.” Very devious abu... read more
Yes people like this should have their license taken away and maybe even be in jail - they lack remorse and boundaries and won’t stop unless regulatory action is taken by society to protect people from them. “I will be sadistic if you let him” - Leon’s exact words word for word. A normal person never would say that. And him saying “there is no normal” when you tried to address his transgressions shows everything you need to know. A person who violates and harms others and is entitled and not remorseful about it and takes ple... read more
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