“He’s dissociated again”—for Gunther Schmidt, this is an inadequate statement, because no one simply disappears; everyone is always associated with something. He illustrates this with his own experience of tidying up and derives from it what a clear mandate requires.

Chapter:

0:16 “He’s dissociated again”
1:55 “They’re gone from Bad Kissingen”
2:32 The tidying-up issue at home
4:16 What meta-goals we need
6:27 Negotiating a clear mandate
7:01 “Please don’t help”
7:24 What’s inherent in every trauma
8:08 Intervention means: Introducing distinctions
9:42 Why he argues against indirectness