This therapist ought to see a shrink.
A Manhattan psychologist who specializes in couples therapy had trouble talking out problems with her own hubby, so she grabbed a knife in each hand and viciously slashed her spouse — also a shrink — all over his body, authorities said.
Joyce Poster-Lederman, an acclaimed psychotherapist with practices in Riverdale and on the Upper West Side, faces felony assault and weapons-possession charges in Manhattan Criminal Court today for the allegedly violent session she had with her husband, Selwyn Lederman.
Authorities say the frustrated female Freudian blew her top on Sept. 29 during a spat at the couple’s home at 15 W. 84th St.
Poster-Lederman, 64, apparently forgot her anger-management techniques and bellowed a primal scream of “Get out! Get out!” to her husband, sources said.
Then she allegedly sliced and diced her 79-year-old spouse on his left and right knees, right ankle and left thumb, a law-enforcement source said.
At least one of the bloody blades was a long, serrated bread knife, the source said.
“I have no comment about it,” Selwyn told The Post after being asked how the attack made him feel.
“I don’t want to deal with that at all, zero.”
He then offered some sage psychological advice — “Just let it go” — before closing the door to his apartment.
At the height of the Woody Allen and Mia Farrow divorce in 1993, Poster-Lederman spoke about relationship trouble with The New York Times.
She said the biggest problem between men and women is communication.
Women, she said, talk about emotions, while men simply recite facts.
“Couples will come in, and he’ll tell his side of the story, and I’ll say, ‘How do you feel?’ He’ll say, ‘I just told you.’ Little boys are told, ‘You’re not supposed to cry, you’re supposed to be strong.’ It’s hard to tap into that as an adult,” she said.
“Life is very different now from what it’s ever been, but people still have many of the same expectations of each other,” she added. “I say women have double trouble: They have careers but are expected to come home and cook and clean.”
Poster-Lederman’s lawyer, Aaron Wallenstein, called the entire incident “a little bit of a misunderstanding.”
“They don’t want an order of protection,” he said. “There might have been some verbal dispute.”
He added that Poster-Lederman was not drunk and 911 was not called.