Couch Talk

Psychiatric help costs a bundle, right? Wrong . . . at least when the psychiatrist’s on video, via the $9.95 (yes, $9.95!) “Talk to Me . . . Your Interactive Home Psychiatrist.”

From Horizon Ent., Burbank, it features a shrink (actually, it’s actor Jack Hanrahan, who used to write for “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In”) who “asks questions, takes notes, nods his head and furrows his brow”--just like a real disciple of Freud. This according to a Horizon spokeswoman, who said that during the tape, he even he stops to say something like “Excuse me, but I have to interrupt you--I think you’re hiding something.” But’s that’s about as personal as he gets. “The tape is totally non-judgmental,” she assured us.

To be sold strictly as a gag-item, the 30-minute tape, said the spokeswoman, could be the perfect gift for “a pesky friend who keeps calling at 2 a.m. to tell you his or her problems.”

But don’t plan to give--or get--”Talk to Me” yet. It won’t be available until September. That’ll just drive you craaaaazy!