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The singer's lawyers have reportedly convinced her to let mental health experts "evaluate and treat" her on an outpatient basis.
She has previously refused to undergo psychological testing, despite repeated orders from the judge in her child custody case.
But she is now believed to be "receptive" to the idea after once more failing to regain visitation rights to her two children.
However, Chicago psychoanalyst Mark Smaller urged people to stop trying to diagnose Spears, complaining that medics who had never talked to her were giving their opinions to celebrity magazines.
He told the Associated Press: "I've been very upset about this. This idea of making a diagnosis of someone they've never met is completely inappropriate, and it gives mental health professionals a bad name."
