The mizaj framework is fascinating, and your point about Western tools being incomplete hits exactly right.

There's something they all miss at the constitutional level — the idea that temperament isn't just behavioral preference but something deeper and more fixed.

I've been working in a similar space with BaZi, the Chinese Four Pillars system. Different tradition entirely, but the same underlying premise, that character has a constitutional basis that precedes behavior, and that understanding it changes how you work with yourself rather than against yourself. Your line about stop pathologising yourself could have come straight from a BaZi reading.

Would be genuinely curious how mizaj and BaZi overlap. Some of the elemental structures feel like they might be mapping similar territory from different angles.