This discussion centers around Weisel-Barth’s question about the limits of empathy and the use of what she refers to as expanded empathy. The author views some of the clinical moments Weisel-Barth describes through the lens of a trauma and dissociation informed perspective resting on the presumption of the multiplicity of the self. The explosive disruption Weisel-Barth describes is viewed as an enactment expressing multiple layers of trauma, including intergenerational trauma.