Depression: the loss of the affective contact Nyidia Perez Chavez Abstract Understanding depression as the loss of the affective contact means to first recognize that contact is something more than physical nearness, is an experience of connectivity, not only with human beings, but with all the alive beings, inanimate objects, even the space. Between us, always exists someone whom is in process of loss of contact, or even ourselves in a certain moment we lose it, we establish rigid borders that unable us to contact, creating a negative square of the self and the world, not expressing our affections and we don’t allow that the affections of others contact us: we origin depression. Gestalt Psychotherapy offers the way to re-do the lost contact and overcome depression. The treatment stills being a challenge, it is needed support and security to build pensafectos and accomplish to expand frontiers towards affective contact. The function of psycho therapist may be seeing as the ...