Definition excerpted with permission from Ginger, Serge International Glossary of Gestalt Psychotherapy (Seven languages including English. Order from FORGE at 183 rue Lecourbe; 75015 Paris, France) Paperback 1995.
- the first stage of Goodman's contact-withdrawal cycle. The self functions primarily in the id mode (sensation, excitement). Pre-Contact is often disturbed, even absent, in psychotics.
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