UWS Couples Therapist Cuts Up Husband

Joyce Poster-Lederman

A successful psychologist specializing in couples therapy faces felony assault and weapons-possession charges for slashing her husband with two kitchen knives on September 29th. Joyce Poster-Lederman, who practices on the Upper West Side and Riverdale, allegedly cut husband Selwyn Lederman, also a psychologist, during a domestic dispute in their West 84th Street apartment. Police sources say the marriage therapist got pissed during the argument and came at Lederman with a knife in each hand.

In the NY Post's words, Poster-Lederman, 64, "apparently forgot her anger-management techniques and bellowed a primal scream of 'Get out! Get out!'" Lederman, 79, sustained cuts on his left and right knees, right ankle and left thumb. He had no comment for a reporter outside their apartment yesterday, but Poster-Lederman's lawyer described the incident as "a little bit of a misunderstanding. They don't want an order of protection. There might have been some verbal dispute." And some slice and dice. But at least there wasn't a pot of boiling water on the stove.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 6, 2009 9:24 AM

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dadoc

Look at that face..... Expert?

Got a few adjustment problems?

Bartenders and random Cabbies are a much better

source of insight and guidance. And they don't slash you.

If that doesn't work, hit the 24-hour manicure place

for their "late-night special".

May not solve your problems, but at least you'll smile.

Would love to see a vid montage of this psycho-harpy's

media appearances interspersed with security vid clips

of her trying to Benihana poor old Selwyn.

Priceless!

NannyState

Not much of a marriage if she's always projecting and he's always deflecting.

Spirit of 76

Physician, heal thyself. (Yeah, yeah. I know psychologists aren't MDs.)

tsol

Here's the victim.

hotstepper

this type of behavior can be expected from any woman with a hyphenated name.

Trilby16

I know exactly how she felt.

Snoopy

So cleaning shellfish in the sink is so bad? That and making mini pork chops in the microwave?

Couldn't have happened to a nicer couple. Plus that is one ugly kid. I feel very sorry for the people that get him/her? from foster care.

I guess she will go back to being known only as Joyce Poster. Now for the remarks that she will be the Poster woman for ...

Dirk

Haha, right.... a "little bit of a misunderstanding"...

Bort

Why do all Jewish husbands die before their wives?

Because they want to! Heyoooooo!

Splicer

As a person who thinks everything is bullshit, therapy has often seemed the most bullshitiest (besides religion). I go to a person who is just as fucked up as I am, start talking while they go "Hmm, that's interesting" and then charge me for it. You'd do just as well finding a random person online and having an IM conversation for five minutes.

HymietownHero

I'd be as skeptical as you, too, if I'd picked up all my notions of therapy from cartoons and comic strips.

That said, I reserve my skepticism for this topic.