Should Dr. Phil Back Off Britney?

Jessica Simpson. Lindsay Lohan. Jennifer Aniston. Dr. Phil?! Someone, the balding psychiatrist has made his way to headlines of all the tabloids this week, thanks to his hospital visit with Britney Spears last week. "My meeting with Britney and some family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention," he told Entertainment Tonight and The Insider after the encounter. "We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car. I am very concerned for her."

But is he? Phil insists that he was asked to intervene by the Spears family. "Thursday night, the phone rang, and it was Lynne -- and she has a very close relationship with my wife, Robin and, clearly, she was very upset," he told The Early Show on Monday. "I went to see Britney at the request of her family�They were very frustrated that she apparently wasn't going to be held for a longer period of time." But since Dr. Phil's interaction with the troubled star, the family has backed out of doing an intervention for Britney on Dr. Phil Now. (Dr. Phil said on his website that he pulled out of the show because the sitch is "too intense.")

Now, fellow psychiatrists are tsk-tsking Dr. Phil for imposing himself on Britney and the hospital for letting him see Brit without her consent. One psychiatrist tells TMZ that it was "intrusive and inappropriate," while another says that the hospital was "star struck" and threw the rules out the window.