This discussion approaches Jane R. Lewis's treatise on possible meanings of the embodied self-expression of hair-pulling from several perspectives. First, the cross-cultural ubiquity of hair-pulling as an expression of grief and lamentation invites questions about hardwired human gestural expression, as well as thoughts about evolutionary biology. Next, I speak to Jane's work with hair-pullers whose reported family histories share unmourned and unacknowledged traumas. I use Brandchaft's ideas about intergenerational systems of pathological accommodation to account for this phenomenon, wherein the allowable “known” is handed down through a set of history- and affect-denying, immutable belief systems that pass, outside awareness, through generations. I introduce a case example to compare hair-pulling to other forms of emotional displacement, all of which can be understood as strategies that seek to bypass dangerous affects that threaten attachment or self-cohesion. Finally, in the spirit of transparency, I share my own personal history as an infant hair-puller.