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Couples Therapist's Solution to Marital Fight? Knife Hubby

NYC psychologist must have forgotten own advice

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 6, 2009 12:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – A Manhattan couples therapist—who once told the New York Times the biggest problem between men and women is communication—is accused of knifing her husband in an argument. Joyce Poster-Lederman—or, as the Post calls her, “the frustrated female Freudian”—allegedly blew up during a fight at home Sept. 29, yelling “Get out!” at hubby (and fellow psychologist) Selwyn Lederman before slashing his knees, ankle, and thumb with a pair of knives.

The Times used Poster-Lederman, 64, as a marriage expert in the midst of the early '90s unraveling between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. She faces assault charges in court today. Lederman, 79, tells the Post, “I have no comment about it. I don't want to deal with that at all, zero. Just let it go.” Poster-Lederman’s lawyer says the whole thing is “a little bit of a misunderstanding.”

Psychologist Joyce Poster-Lederman must have forgotten her own advice
Psychologist Joyce Poster-Lederman must have forgotten her own advice   (Shutterstock)
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COMMENTS
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riffran
Oct 7, 2009 6:23 AM CDT
@robn....rofl.....too funny thumbs up
jagerhans
Oct 7, 2009 4:08 AM CDT
she can't, it 's all about sexism and being retards.
Netstorm2k10
Oct 6, 2009 9:19 AM CDT
You just know that her patients/clients (whatever) are like, hell, why did we pay her so much?

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