I try to stay away from celeb gossip but Britney shows up on Google news at least once a week. So Britney’s family supposedly planned an intervention with Dr. Phil and Britney bailed on it. And then Dr. Phil told some show or tabloid that Britney be a crazy bitch. Whatever. I’ve looked up Dr. Phil’s credentials before and sadly, some college did give him a PhD. It was 20 years ago, he probably wasn’t such an opinionated tool back then. Being a “doctor” and all, shouldn’t he be bound by confidentiality laws? HIPAA? Ethical obligations of some sort?
This chick at NY Times says no because he is no longer licensed. Well, what the hell Dr. Phil? Get all famous and you let your licenses slip or you purposely give up your license so you can jabber about Britney’s ugly boyfriend with the press? Either way. Dr. Tool gives psychology a bad name because while he does have a degree in psychology, he is just practicing the art of getting really fucking rich, not anything remotely professional.
Also on the paying too much attention to Britney front, I’ve noticed her last couple songs sound a lot more distorted and electronic. Assuming she has some input in what she sings, I thought her distorted voice was a way of separating herself from this lifestyle that she obviously cannot handle. Almost disassociating herself from her music. Then I realized that her voice probably sounds like hell because of all the drugs she seems to be eating and the producers needed to throw some distortion on her vocals to cover up her overwhelming suck.
This all came up when I was looking up medical information, really.