Christie Brinkley has such bad taste in men, she should get her head examined.

That’s what a court-appointed shrink seemed to say when he recommended that the supermodel – who’s been married four times – go into therapy.

“She needs to start working on therapy issues relating to her parenting…maybe her choice of male figures…certain motivations that she had herself that can get her into trouble,” psychiatrist Stephen Herman testified.

Brinkley, 54, is locked in a divorce battle with fourth hubby, Peter Cook, 49.

She’s also married and divorced three other men, artist Jean-François Allaux, singer Billy Joel and developer Ricky Taubman.

Under cross-examination, she admitted she isn’t anxious to hop onto the couch.

“I’m not sure that I’m a huge fan of psychotherapy. I think there’s lots and lots of ways to deal with various issues,” she said.

“But if Dr. Herman feels strongly about it, I would do whatever it takes to convince the court that I’m willing to make whatever changes they deem necessary.”

Herman’s report took both parents to task – Brinkley for her lingering fury over Cook’s betrayal and Cook for being a narcissist with sexual issues.

After interviewing the couple and the kids, Herman concluded that Brinkley should get custody because Cook has displayed “poor judgment.”

He cited Cook’s 35 sexual partners, a two-hour-a-day Internet porn habit and his “impulsive, self-destuctive, possibly compulsive” affair with teenage Diana Bianchi.

The fling was a “family disaster” that caused “irreparable harm” to the children – 13-year-old Jack and 10-year-old Sailor Lee, the psychiatrist said.

“I think there were some problems before,” Herman told the court. “Certainly taking that step, making that choice was the beginning of the end of the marriage.”

He also described Cook as a self-absorbed egotist.

“He needs constant reassurance that he is a terrific guy, handsome, accomplished etc.,” his report to the court said.

“Where most people need some quiet ‘feeding’ with their egos, Mr. Cook has an insatiable appetite.”

Asked whether the couple could have joint custody of the kids – which is what Cook wants – Herman was unequivocal.

“It is not a viable option,” he said.

Nevertheless, he said the children and Cook have a “very close bond” – and Brinkley needs to accept that, Herman said.

“It would be important for the sake of the children that Miss Brinkley let go of this,” his report said.

While Brinkley’s anger is “understandable,” Herman noted that she is “blinkered by her disgust with and for Mr. Cook” and lets the children know how she feels.

As an example of Brinkley’s uncontrolled fury, Cook’s camp accused Brinkley of scratching his face from photos in front of the children.

The cover girl denied it, saying she blacked out his face from a single wedding photo and put it in a private dresser in a closet a few weeks after she learned of his infidelity.

“I felt like he was an invisible man,” she explained. “Just his outfit remained, standing next to me, like an empty wedding outfit with no person with it

“And that’s how I felt – the person that I knew and loved, I didn’t know where he went.”

Cook lawyer Norman Sheresky asked her: “Did you ever say to Jack, ‘Ask your dad to tell you about his whores?’” Brinkley said she had not.

“Did you ever scream at Peter?” Sheresky asked.

“You bet,” Brinkley shot back.

“Around the children?” he pressed.

“No sir, not that I’m aware of,” she said.

Sheresky repeatedly tried to get her to admit she was angry, but Brinkley refused.

“I don’t think that’s really the portrait of a woman enraged and consumed in anger,” she said of Herman’s report. “I believe that the portrait of a mother trying to give some sense of normalcy to some children whose world has been destroyed by this man’s greed and lust.”

Sheresky was annoyed by her long-winded answers.

“No matter what I ask her, she makes a speech,” he complained to the judge.

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WENN