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LOW THE TRUMPET: THE CAVALRY'S COMING TO HELP SAVE BRITNEY SPEARS from her media tormentors. According to MSNBC, the national zeitgeist on Brit just might be changing, and sniff sniff, Crabby is taking a teardrop of credit.

Let's recount the latest: The Britney Celebrity Defense Leagueİ keeps growing longer, with Demi Moore and Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean being the latest celebs to speak in defense of the Popped Tart. The Los Angeles Police is finally running interference between Brit and the paps, stopping four while they chased Britney's car on the highway last week. And, now, God bless 'em, we have real credentialed experts outside of La La Land spanking the media for practicing its own form of quackery for affixing mental diagnoses on Brit.

In line with their new edict that all things Britney are newsworthy, the Associated Press is running a story quoting mental health experts scolding the media for slapping labels such as "bi-polar" and "multiple personality" on Spears.

''I've been very upset about this,'' Mark Smaller, a psychoanalyst from Chicago, told the AP. "This idea of making a diagnosis of someone they've never met is completely inappropriate, and it gives mental health professionals a bad name." He made a point to note that any diagnosis takes at least several appointments with a patient to make. "Trying to make such a diagnosis based purely on someone's behavior," and especially as it's portrayed by selective news coverage,"is scientifically impossible," says Smaller, director of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation.

The 26-year-old mom/singer/starlet spends her life under seiged by the paparazzi, so much so that some people and news agencies are wondering if she hasn't developed "Stockholm Syndrome" now that she's even sleeping with the enemy, a.k.a. cameraman Adnan Ghalib. "When you see her seeming like she's friends with the paparazzi, she's got, like, Stockholm syndrome," actress Patricia Arquette told Contactmusic.com. "I mean she's becoming friends with her captors. She's being torn apart by this business." (We can add Patricia to the BCDL now.) That saying Brit has SS is also a diagnosis but one that leavens less blame on Britney for making friends with the paps; after all, she's basically their prisoner. But her captor Adnan at least has nice things to say about the so-called "train wreck", in an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight. If he screws her over as the gossips are betting, then there will at least big a bigger villain in this story than Brit.

Posted January 24, 2008




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