William H. Reid is an American forensic psychiatrist based in Texas. Reid has given expert witness testimony on several high-profile legal cases and has contributed to various academic publications.
Early life edit
Reid graduated with a B.A. in psychology in 1966 and completed his M.D. medical degree in 1970, both at the University of Minnesota. He undertook a psychiatric residency at the University of California, Davis, between 1970 and 1975, interrupted for military service. He then obtained a Master of Public Health (M.P.H) qualification from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.[1]
Career edit
Reid is a professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the Texas A&M College of Medicine, and the University of Texas Dell Medical School.[2] He was the Medical Director of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation from 1989 to 1996. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications and abstracts, and 17 books.[1]
For the 2015 trial of James Holmes for the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting, Reid reported around 300 hours of preparation and conducted 22 hours of interviews which were shown in their entirety to the jury. He reportedly was paid $500,000.[3] He nearly caused a mistrial by immediately openly opining that Holmes met the legal standard of sanity.[4] The BBC in 2017 reported that Reid had told them the shooting "was completely unrelated to the medication. For me, it was a result of mental illness."[5]
In 2005 Reid supported psychiatrist Park Dietz over false testimony that had contributed to a guilty verdict and a possible execution of Andrea Yates. Dietz had testified that Yates got the idea of drowning children and claiming postpartum psychosis from a recent episode of Law and Order, a TV show Dietz had consulted on, but later admitted such an episode didn't exist and that Yates hadn't told him she watched the show. Reid called it an 'accident' and 'off-the-cuff answer' that shouldn't affect Dietz's credibility, blaming the prosecutor for exploiting it.[6]
In 2001 Reid reported on statistics resulting from a law in Texas that all deaths within two weeks of Electroconvulsive therapy be reported to the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; the article concluded that "The mortality rate associated with ECT (less than two per 100,000 treatments) in Texas is extremely low" and opposed the reporting of deaths within two weeks.[7] A 2010 British study reported the Reid article as concluding that suicides after ECT were unrelated to the treatment itself, but were themselves "unable to determine whether ECT suicides occurred due to relapse or to the receipt of ECT".[8]
In 1999 Reid published an informal survey of psychiatrists who had personally, or knew of relatives who had personally, undergone electroconvulsive therapy. Reid reported in abstract that based on the psychiatrists' informal perceptions, "Almost all patients had moderate to excellent improvement" while clarifying in the full text that this was "sometimes with lasting relief". Reid alleged that later limited availability of ECT contributed to two suicides.[9]
In 1998 Reid, along with an economist from Novartis pharmaceutical company, reported a significantly lower rate of suicides in patients prescribed clozapine.[10] Yale professor of psychiatry Michael Sernyak and others have critiqued the statistical comparison for excluding suicides by people who had discontinued clozapine, a factor potentially linked to suicide, as well as not systematically establishing the basic demographic equivalence of the groups.[11][12][13][14]
References edit
- ^ a b "Reid Psychiatry Qualifications". www.reidpsychiatry.com. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
- ^ "William H. Reid, M.D., MPH". Dell Medical School. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ^ McKinley, Lo Snelgrove, Peri Duncan and Carol. "CU News Corps | Holmes case and trial costs still being tallied". cunewscorps.com. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Psychiatrist: Aurora theater gunman was mentally ill but legally sane". The Denver Post. 2015-05-28. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
- ^ White, Catriona (2017-07-26). "My son, the mass murderer". BBC Three. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
- ^ "Doctor's reputation takes a hit in Yate's testimony". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
- ^ Shiwach, Raj S.; Reid, William H.; Carmody, Thomas J. (2001-08-01). "An Analysis of Reported Deaths Following Electroconvulsive Therapy in Texas, 1993-1998". Psychiatric Services. 52 (8): 1095–1097. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.52.8.1095. ISSN 1075-2730. PMID 11474057. S2CID 44948361.
- ^ Hunt, Isabelle M.; Windfuhr, Kirsten; Swinson, Nicola; Shaw, Jenny; Appleby, Louis; Kapur, Nav (2011-05-15). "Electroconvulsive therapy and suicide among the mentally ill in England: A national clinical survey". Psychiatry Research. 187 (1): 145–149. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2010.12.014. ISSN 0165-1781. PMID 21208662. S2CID 25178183.
- ^ Reid, William H. (September 1999). "Electroconvulsive Therapy in Psychiatrists and Their Families". The Journal of ECT. 15 (3): 207–12. doi:10.1097/00124509-199909000-00005. ISSN 1095-0680. PMID 10492859.
- ^ Reid, W. H.; Mason, M.; Hogan, T. (August 1998). "Suicide prevention effects associated with clozapine therapy in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder". Psychiatric Services. 49 (8): 1029–1033. doi:10.1176/ps.49.8.1029. ISSN 1075-2730. PMID 9712207.
- ^ Sernyak, Michael J.; Hoff, Rani; Rosenheck, Robert (1999-01-01). "Clozapine and Suicide". Psychiatric Services. 50 (1): 116–7. doi:10.1176/ps.50.1.116. ISSN 1075-2730. PMID 9890596.
- ^ Reid, William H.; Mason, Mark; Hogan, Thomas (1999-01-01). "Clozapine and Suicides". Psychiatric Services. 50 (1): 116a–117. doi:10.1176/ps.50.1.116a. ISSN 1075-2730.
- ^ Sernyak, Michael J.; Desai, Rani; Stolar, Marilyn; Rosenheck, Robert (2001-06-01). "Impact of Clozapine on Completed Suicide". American Journal of Psychiatry. 158 (6): 931–937. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.158.6.931. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 11384902.
- ^ Patchan, Kathleen M.; Richardson, Charles; Vyas, Gopal; Kelly, Deanna L. (November 2015). "The risk of suicide after clozapine discontinuation: Cause for concern". Annals of Clinical Psychiatry. 27 (4): 253–256. ISSN 1040-1237. PMC 5470314. PMID 26554366.