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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 |
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
It is like dog training isn’t it? Stays with the animal forever - they follow it without even realizing, Leone did it to us saying “a good therapist gets in your head and helps you make decisions when you leave” except he was practicing self serving Attack Therapy without our consent and was delusional about his methods being “healthy” so him taking it upon himself to program us like dogs was unethical - what he taught us was harmful and psychopathic.
Leone covertly applied Attack Therapy to his clients without their consent and ran his own cult using cult methods. He had taken it upon himself to act outside of the scope of his psychologist’s license, violated human and professional ethics with brash entitlement and casually engaged in emotional abuse of his clients some of whom he kept around for 20 years, then made fun of them and demeaned them as “adult day care patients who had nothing else to do during the day than to see him.” He kept stringing them along with provo... read more
Yes he as playing mind games to push you into group saying people outside of group aren’t worth your time, aren’t loving correctly, have incorrect decision and lifestyle and that the people in the group are therefore better people and more worth your time; he literally said “Your friend X is a jerk, why waste time talking about him?” even though he barely knew the person. It was like he was literally building his own little cult with patients being his followers who idolised him while brainwashing them to push away their fri... read more
He would try to sabotage people's college career by pressuring them away from their college program to attend his group because he wanted them in his group - as younger attractive people attracted others to join, and he did at the harm to the person who thought he had their best interest in mind.
Yes, he breaks you down and then teaches you sadism and manipulation as a way to get through life, you end up with narcissism which you like and confuse for maturity and end up worshipping him, coincidentally he gaslights you by calling you the narcissist to confuse you. It’s very very devious and he plays a lot of mind games, which is something you don’t expect from a licensed therapist. And he repeats the same tricks with one patient after another. Some leave others stay, he tries to get them to stay for years. The longer ... read more
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