My complimentary copies have just arrived from and I’m truly happy to finally hold them in my hands!! The paperback and hardback editions are here. They are beautiful!
After more than six years of research and writing, my book Understanding the Mind through Bodily Experience – The SomatoDrama Effect Model is now available in English (published in 2026 by Routledge Books, Abingdon, UK).
This is the first research work carried out within the SomatoDrama method, and the first book on this approach published in English for an international audience.
The Hungarian edition (published in 2024 by Medicina Publishing House, Hungary) became a widely recognized research work, marking an important milestone for the SomatoDrama community – and for me personally.
SomatoDrama, developed in Hungary by Laszlo Buda, MD, PhD has become a widely used therapeutic approach and toolkit in psychosomatic and trauma-focused work.
My sincere thanks to Routledge Books, my editor Lauren Redhead, and all the reviewers who contributed to this journey.
And thank you to my teachers – especially Laszlo Buda MD, PhD – for introducing me to this method.
I hope each of you finds something meaningful in this work – something you can take with you.
Six years ago—right in the middle of the Covid era—while preparing for my final exams, I received the news that I had been awarded a research scholarship as a Young Talent of the Nation in the field of psychological sciences.
“You have undertaken a methodological innovation. (…) SomatoDrama has not yet been researched by anyone,” the official evaluation letter stated. “Based on your proposal, we would be curious to see how you could substantiate its effectiveness.” The scholarship has been announced by the Human Resources Support Management Agency on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resources; application ID: NTP/667/2020; number: NTP-NFTÖ-20-B-0131; EPER ID: EPER-2020-236118.
Surrounded by piles of oral exam materials, I was literally jumping with joy. That day marked the ceremonial beginning of my summer break—when László Buda MD, PhD signed his consent form and said to me: “This is huge, Annie… Go and do it.”
The 21-year-old Annie has since become 27-year-old Anna—yet, if I’m honest with myself, it is still that young student’s enthusiasm and vulnerability that I draw my creative strength from to this day. There were times when I didn’t value her presence enough; since then, I make time every day to listen to her—whether she feels I’m on the right path.
The research process and writing this book have been—and continue to be—defining journeys of self-discovery.
From dream to plan, from plan to thoughts, from thoughts to chapters, and from chapters to a book.
Or rather, two… in Hungarian and in English… both labors of love.
I believe the saying is true: fundamentally, what we write for others, we also write for ourselves.
Even if it is “just” a pilot study, to me it is so much more. Much more.
It was worth starting—if only for that one intense, nearly five-hour working process tied to developing the foundations of the effect model, during which I even forgot to eat and drink…
So, the SomatoDrama developed by Dr. László Buda, and its – seemingly self-standing – customized research approach (SomatoDrama effect model) debuted abroad in book form on March 12, 2026, under the supervision of the world-renowned publisher of the humanities and social sciences, the venerable Routledge Books.
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Lauren Redhead for her openness to my inquiry, for encouraging me during the process of presenting the research in front of international experts, answering complex methodological questions, and defending my “mini-dissertation,” and for believing in me all the way to publication.
As an old Zen saying goes: When the student is being examined, the masters remain silent.
Thank you for the silence and the space in which all of this could come to life.
My sincere thanks to Mrs. Frigyesné Farkasvölgyi, CEO of Medicina Publishing, for her generosity, flexibility, and trust in allowing me to freely use the English version of the Hungarian manuscript and share its content with the world. Let the good spread.
I am convinced that the Hungarian edition played a major role in shaping the English debut.
I am deeply grateful to my mentors, Prof. Emőke Bagdy PhD and László Buda MD, PhD, for the teachings and guidance essential to spreading my wings. Without them, I could not claim the hard-earned identity I am able to embody and work from today.
Special thanks for the professional endorsements of the English edition to László Buda MD, PhD, Balázs Lázár MD, Virág Pálma Fehér PhD, Szabolcs Takács PhD, Árpád Kántor PhD, Adrienn Rédl and Mária Kelemenné Mikó.
Quo vadis, SomatoDrama? The journey begins here…
Read it, share it, love this creation.
May you find something grounding, exciting, and healing in it—that is my wish.
Understanding the Mind through Bodily Experience – The SomatoDrama Effect Model Or rather… the English-language book is now in print, published by the prestigious Routledge publishing house (United Kingdom). And I’m so excited!
Exactly two years ago (in 2024), The SomatoDrama Effect Model was published in Hungarian by Medicina Publishing.
The reception of the book – far exceeding my expectations – already suggested that the path we had begun might be worth continuing.
Over the past two years, four reprints and appearances on several Hungarian (and international) platforms have expanded the readership of this volume, which was the first scientific work to present an impact study of the SomatoDrama method developed by Laszlo Buda MD, PhD.
The present moment is simple and exciting: in ten days, the English edition of the book enters its pre-order phase. As I count the days, memories of the beginnings resurface…
From the very start, my intention was to make this research accessible to both professional and non-professional readers. To share something of my work – and a little of myself as well – that truly belongs to this process and may hold meaning for others.
What mattered then, and still matters now, is not so much the fact of publication itself, but whether a long, heartfelt process of work is truly worth the effort. Whether the book that comes into being can speak, build, support, carry the reader through, open perspectives, or invite deeper questioning and reflection. This was my dream and it has come true.
The early trust placed in me by Laszlo Buda MD, PhD and by Medicina Publishing provided a lasting foundation for the daily practice of “struggle, and trust while you struggle” – yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
The Hungarian edition was held and shaped within a supportive human and professional space, with the presence of Mrs. Frigyesné Farkasvölgyi, Anetta Lengyelné Barta, the team of Medicina Publishing, Prof. Emőke Bagdy PhD., Laszlo Buda MD, PhD., Balázs Lázár MD, Adrienn Rédl and Mária Kelemenné Mikó.
One of the special features of the English edition is the expansion of this professional space, with the contribution of Pálma Virág Fehér PhD., Szabolcs Takács PhD. and Árpád Kántor PhD.
More about the process at the time of publication.
For now: a year ago, I would not have imagined writing this – but here we are.
Ten days to go, and Understanding the Mind Through Bodily Experience: The SomatoDrama Effect Model becomes available for pre-order with Routledge Publishing (Abingdon, United Kingdom).
Expected publication: 11th March 2026.
Understanding the Mind through Bodily Experience: The SomatoDrama Effect Model will be available for pre-order from February 18, 2026.
For me, this book is not merely an academic work: it is an inner Camino, a rebirth… a story of healing. Not only in theory, but in practice as well. Through the journey of my own life.
I am profoundly grateful to Routledge Books for the months of intense work, shared reflection, and support I have experienced as an author in this process.
Dr Laszlo BUDA, Dr Balazs LAZAR, Dr Arpad KANTOR, Dr Szabolcs TAKACS, Dr Pálma Virág FEHER, Adrienn RÉDL, and Mária KELEMENNÉ MIKO – You are not only professional, but also deeply human pillars of the path I am now walking… and the path we are walking together with this book. I believe your voices are the true jewels of this creation…
And the foundations… the beginning: my heartfelt thanks to Medicina Publishing, who, by bringing forth the Hungarian edition, gave wings to something I never dreamed could travel so far. Within me, within others… and now it seems, soon within anyone in the world who feels called by what it carries… Quo vadis SomatoDrama? The journey begins here.
For more details please refer to the following link: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Mind-through-Bodily-Experience-The-SomatoDrama-Effect-Model/Uveges/p/book/9781041114567
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On the evening of 3 October 2025…
I remember, when I was an exchange student aged fourteen or fifteen, walking the streets of Amsterdam one February afternoon, when I suddenly found myself in front of the Waterstones bookstore. The mere sight of it was inviting.
I spent a long time hiding among the shelves, leafing through books and wondering what path a piece of writing would take to become a book. My train of thought was interrupted when my fellow students literally found me between the lines. The nearby pancake house closed shortly after, and it would have been a sin to wait for it.
I still carefully keep the Waterstones bookmark from when I was fifteen, along with the book I walked out of the store with into the cold Amsterdam winter. However, I never dreamed that, 11 years later, my adolescent reflection of ‘I don’t even understand how it came about’ might make sense.
Since last night, I have been under the influence of what I saw: the upcoming release of the English version of the book Understanding the Mind through Bodily Experience: The SomatoDrama Effect Model. The cover of this book, which is dear to my heart, has been adopted by many other foreign publishers and stores, as well as Waterstones London.
It will therefore definitely be available on various book platforms in Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland and Austria.
Pre-orders open on 18 February 2026, and according to our plans, the book will be released on 11 March 2026.
I am endlessly grateful to Routledge Books for publishing this book and making my teenage dream come true, and to Medicina Publishing for the support on this journey.
I am experiencing all of this now as if I were looking back at an old, somewhat surreal dream, only to realise that I had somehow entered reality in the process.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
For more details please refer to the following link: https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Mind-through-Bodily-Experience-The-SomatoDrama-Effect-Model/Uveges/p/book/9781041114567
Cover © Routledge. Use of the cover image is strictly prohibited.
May the sun shine on You, SomatoDrama…
Work on the manuscript of the book: Understanding the Mind through Bodily Experience: the SomatoDrama Effect Model is in progress. (July 2025)
