I have been fortunate to work on occasions with SACCS, the ground-breaking organisation that has helped us to take forward our thinking about how abuse can have the effect of traumatising children. As part of this work I discovered that their approach was compatible with my own perspective on trauma which is rooted in existentialist thinking. One result of this has been a co-authored article on existentialism and trauma. Mary Walsh, chief executive of SACCS (www.saccs.co.uk) and I worked together to produce a paper that has now been published in the Journal of Social Work Practice:  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919432665~frm=titlelink?words=existential,trauma It is to be hoped that it will stimulate further discussion and research on this important topic.