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The Personal Style of the Therapist (PST) is a multidimensional construction that is present in every therapeutic process. Aim. This research studies the differences between Italian and Chilean post-rationalist cognitive therapists. Method. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted to compare therapists in the five dimensions of EPT. For this purpose, a t-test was applied. The EPT-C questionnaire was administered to a total sample of 63 post-rational cognitive therapists of both nationalities. Results. The results revealed statistically significant differences in expressive function (p =,004). Italian therapists showed the highest values. Conclusion. In the five functions evaluated by ETP only significant differences for expressive function were found., El estilo personal del terapeuta (PST) es una construcción multidimensional que está presente en cada proceso terapéutico. Objetivo. Esta investigación estudia las diferencias entre los terapeutas cognitivos posracionalistas italianos y chilenos. Método. Se realizó un análisis transversal para comparar terapeutas en las cinco dimensiones de EPT. Para este propósito, se aplicó una prueba t. El cuestionario EPT-C se administró a una muestra total de 63 terapeutas cognitivos posracionales de ambas nacionalidades. Resultados Los resultados revelaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en la función expresiva (p =, 004). Los terapeutas italianos mostraron los valores más altos. Conclusión. En las cinco funciones evaluadas por ETP solo se encontraron diferencias significativas para la función expresiva.

The main purpose of this article is to mention the most important Guidano’s approach contributions to modern psychotherapy and psychopathology. In his cultural and interpretative psychology, rooted in evolutionary epistemology, the mind is the link between the individual and his biology, the external world, and his story. Beginning from the emergence of mentalism among primates, Guidano offers a new explanation of psychosis and psychopathology, for understanding and for curing, based on the integration of three levels of self-meaning: individual, familial, and social. With contextualization, a phylogenic way of remaining connected with the group, as the ontogenic way of child developing that takes place in the family context, through the attachment bonds, it becomes possible to put in sequence the personal experience and integrate it inside the self, to maintain life coherence and continuity. Both psychotherapy and psychiatry are in need of a plausible theory of mind that is able to offer an understanding of basic inherited human feelings, language and meanings as evolutionary tools that are necessary for a functioning health human: the mind and the brain are the same thing. The primacy of affect during the evolution of brain-mind suggests that therapies need a clear vision and knowing of affective human life and what we need is a complete integration of every therapeutic tradition, having the primacy of affective development as the core