very stubborn, contrarian and imperious by nature.

His intelligence (at least book smarts) was recognized from a young age and as a result, his family invested all their hopes in him

This is basically the poltard archetype.

his unique psychological make-up

It's not unique at all. Take the prevalence of some arbitrary threshold of extremely low agreeableness and multiply by the proportion of the population that is young, male and has an IQ over 115, and you've got a coin flip of someone being either a poltard or a tankie.

I think the best cure for this is a few university level courses on probability and statistics. Don't ask me how I know.