He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications and abstracts, and 17 books, including A Dark Night in Aurora, which described the life of, mass shooting by, and trial of James Holmes.
[1] For the 2015 trial of James Holmes for the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting, Reid was retained as Judge Carlos Samour, Jr.'s independent forensic expert.
[5] In 2005 Reid supported psychiatrist Park Dietz over erroneous testimony that had contributed to a guilty verdict and a possible execution of Andrea Yates.
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".
[9] In 1998 Reid, along with an economist from Novartis pharmaceutical company, reported a significantly lower rate of suicides in patients prescribed clozapine.