The chapter clarifies “contact” in Gestalt therapy by distinguishing it from connection and relationship. Connection—our organism’s continuous linkage with the environment—is constant and prerequisite to survival; contact, by contrast, is the moment of aware engagement with an assimilable novelty and the operations that assimilate or reject it. Misusing “contact” as mere relation or connection obscures this precision and leads to errors (e.g., calling violent episodes “contact”). The authors argue that contact heals because it restores usable awareness to connections from which we have alienated ourselves after perilous or painful novelties. They differentiate modulation (adjusting rhythm, style, or boundaries to assimilate novelty) from interruption (when awareness deems a once-assimilable novelty unsafe, often due to painful repression immobilizing ego-functions). Interruptions are not Freudian “resistances” against therapy but creative adjustments signaling danger and a need for protection. Gestalt’s originality lies in typologizing contact interruptions, not personalities. Clinically, sexual dysfunctions exemplify lost or denied connections: for instance, anorgasmia can reflect learned refusal of boundary surrender where the other has been dangerous. Therapy supports recovering awareness of danger, co-constructing safe contexts, and rediscovering forms of full contact suited to the person’s present life—thus using the contact process itself as both the site of fear and the pathway to healing.