How does Compass Therapy contrast with the Four Temperaments approach?
The Four Temperaments (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic) approach to understanding personality is based on folklore dating back to the Greek physician, Hippocrates. Compass Therapy is an empirical validated approach to understanding personality that is supported by over 800 studies and doctoral dissertations conducted over the past 75 years by multiple independent researchers. In addition to correlating a Christian theory of personality with the personality of Christ as described in the Gospels, Compass Therapy offers modern principles and techniques for use in clinical counseling and psychotherapy, and pastoral care and ministry.
