Edwards McReynolds, MD

I am born and raised in Galveston, Texas and earned my Bachelor degree In 1963 from the University of Texas in Austin majoring in biology. I received my MD degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UMTB) in Galveston in May 1967. I took a rotating internship at Hermann Hospital in Houston the following year. I did my general psychiatry residency the next 2 years, where I also had a morning job administering electroconvulsive treatments under supervision. I then transferred to Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas where I completed my Child and Adolescent Psychiatric residency.  Following this, I served 2 years at Williford Hall Hospital, Lackland Air Force in San Antonio, Texas where I ran a Child Guidance Clinic and taught child and adolescent psychiatry.

I started my private practice with a group practice in Houston after completing my military obligation. While in this group, I enrolled in an after-hours Psychoanalytic training course that required heavy academic classroom time in addition to my own personal analysis and the training cases. I also had analytic patients under supervision. I completed that program but chose to have very limited analytic cases.

My practice through the years has usually involved hospital and office practice. Several other psychiatrists and I founded and built a private Psychiatric hospital in Houston – West Oaks Hospital, which was very successful for many years. I served as Medical Director there for many years and also directed an adolescent unit. My group also established a residential program for adolescents and young adults in Houston, and I was the medical director of a series of group homes that was connected with West Oaks Hospital.