It is proposed by a British psychiatrist in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (Maltby J, Houran J, McCutcheon LE.: A clinical interpretation of attitudes and behaviors associated with celebrity worship. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2003 Jan;191(1):25-9) that excessive worship of celebrities be afforded disease status in its own right.AlterNet Unsurprisingly, he attributes this trend to the dominance of media culture and the breakdown of family structure in modern society. I would just point out, hater of proliferating idiosyncratic diagnostic categories that I am, that there are a number of existing psychiatric diagnoses of which this would more properly be considered a subset — in cases where it deserves being called psychopathology rather than a societal problem at all.