A psychiatrist brutally stabbed last month by her rampaging patient returned home yesterday as the father of the hero off-duty officer who saved her hoped that eventually the two families would get together.

“She sounds like a fabulous, caring doctor. Best of the best,” said Paul F. Langone, whose son Paul M. Langone shot and killed Dr. Astrid Desrosiers’ attacker.

Desrosiers, 50, was released from Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday morning, where she had been recovering from more than a dozen stab wounds.

Desrosiers, who returned home with both hands heavily bandaged, was attacked by Jay Carciero, 37, of Reading at the Mass. General bipolar clinic where she worked. She declined to comment to reporters at her Belmont home.

Her husband, Claude, told reporters that his wife was concerned about her patients and eager to get back to work.

Carciero was shot and killed by the off-duty special police officer who was in the medical office building at the time. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley credited Langone with saving Desrosiers’ life.

The hero’s father said his family would like to get together with the Desrosiers family, but wants to give the psychiatrist time to heal.

“We would certainly welcome any contact,” Langone said. “But I think they want their privacy and time for a complete recovery, and that’s what we’re praying for.”

Langone said his son, 33, of Reading, would not speak to the media until he’d been formally cleared of wrongdoing by the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office. But the elder Langone said it was “fabulous news” that Desrosiers was able to return home.