Category: Psychology stubs Asperger described his patients as little professors. Aspergers syndrome (AS, or the more common shorthand Aspergers), is characterized as one of the five pervasive developmental disorders, and is commonly referred to as a form of high functioning autism. ... Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. ... Egoism may refer to any of the following: psychological egoism - the doctrine that holds that individuals are motivated by self-interest. ... Ethnocentrism (Greek ethnos (nation + -centrism) or ethnocentricity is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of ones own culture. ... Narcissus, the fictional Greek hero after whom narcissism is named, became obsessed with his own reflection Narcissism, in psychology is the pattern of thinking and behaving which involves infatuation and obsession with ones self to the exclusion of others. ... Selfishness is a primary or sole concern with ones own welfare, while ignoring or harming the welfare of others. ... Solipsism (from the Latin ipse = self and solus = alone) is the epistemological belief that ones self is the only thing that can be known with certainty and verified (sometimes called egoism). ...