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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.

The New York Health Department's Office of Professional Medical Conduct revoked the license of an Upper East Side therapist accused of having sex with two of his patients. One woman told the board that she had an affair with Dr. Reed Moskowitz that lasted 11 years while he saw her as a patient. A second woman accused the doctor of not only having sex with her, but paying for her abortion when she became pregnant with his child. Moskowtiz's defense was that the women were confusing fantasy with reality. The Post points out that on his website, he tells prospective patients that his "focus is on the client taking an active role in their healing process." Moskowitz is also a professor of psychiatry at NYU and apparently also lied on his application last spring by not revealing that he was under investigation for the sex crimes.

The man accused of slashing Upper East Side psychologist Kathryn Faughey to death and attacking another doctor was arraigned in court yesterday. And 39-year-old David Tarloff, a schizophrenic with a history of violence, made it quite an arraignment.

The police arrested a Queens resident for the murder of a therapist on the Upper East Side. David Tarloff, 39, apparently made "statement implicating himself" in the brutal death of Dr. Kathryn Faughey as well as the attack on Dr. Kent Shinbach, who Tarloff claimed institutionalized him in 1991. Tarloff, who is schizophrenic, has a history of violent crime.

Update: Police have arrested David Tarloff, a Queens resident and former patient of Shinbach's, for Faughey's murder. The Post reports Tarloff, described as overweight with a bald spot by neighbors, has a history of violent crime. Apparently fingerprints found on suitcases left at the crime scene led the police to Tarloff.

Update: The police questioned and released a man in Pennsylvania about the murders. The police apparently found the man, who had met Dr. Faughey and her husband at a guitar camp, by looking at Faughey's email.