Best Answer: St. Augustine (Florida) is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States, only San Juan, Puerto Rico predates the city as the oldest settlement within the territory of the United States.
Finally in 1980 the American Psychiatric Association officially recognized multiple personality disorder as a genuine emotional illness. Today, MPD is a relatively popular diagnosis with 20,000 cases recorded between 1980 and 1990. Researchers currently believe that from 0.01-10% of the general population has this mental illness.
However, the first researcher to name the concept of psychopathy was Dr. Hervey Cleckley, who published a book titled The Mask of Sanity in 1941, Thomas writes. Cleckley noted that psychopathy was difficult to diagnose precisely because it presents itself without the obvious symptoms of mental disorder. Psychopaths and sociopaths are often a bit too rational. In her new book, Thomas says Cleckley's 16 behavioral characteristics hit home. Nowhere else have I recognized the sociopath inside me more than in Cleckley's clinical profiles, she writes. Here are Cleckley's 16 characteristics. Ask yourself if they apply to you.