This article explores possible links between hair-pulling and trauma. It suggests that hair-pulling represents a dissociative language, or an intersubjectively formed and maintained “body dialect,” by means of which certain people communicate self-experience pertaining to unmourned and traumatic deaths. With reference to anthropological findings, I offer support for the possibility that a connection exists between ancient mourning rituals involving hair-pulling and what has come to be known as “trichotillomania.” Three brief therapeutic illustrations are presented.