The Anxiety Project by Daan Heerma van Voss - ISBN: 9781529421859
Paperback
One man’s journey to understand his anxiety and a world’s.

The Anxiety Project

  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    26 September 2023

Summary

“The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation” Herman Koch

“Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In it we recognise ourselves, our restlessness and insecurity” George Szirtes

Something inside will not let me be …

Daan Heerma van Voss is not just anxious. According to tests on the cortisone levels in his hair, he is sevent…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529421859
ISBN-10:1529421853
Author:Daan Heerma van Voss, David Doherty
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:26 September 2023
Weight:400g
Dimensions:232mm x 152mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

The Anxiety Project is a journey, both literal and literary … his account is both highly relatable … and fascinating * Sunday Business Post *
Like a modern-day Hercules, Daan Heerma van Voss takes up arms against anxiety, and manages to defeat it by synthesising studies and data, and forging them into a powerful personal story. A thrilling journey though philosophers, artists, super heroes, experts and patients, written in his distinct and brutally honest voice * Tzum *
A fascinating journey through time and space, and an intriguing combination of science, essay and memoir * Psychology Magazine *
An honest and revealing book, in which Heerma van Voss searches for the roots of our modern fears. The result: confessional literature at its best, while never losing touch with broader societal matters * NRC *
Original, sparkling, and often chilling * HP / De Tijd *
Revealing and profound, and Herma Van Voss’s voice as a novelist ties it together beautifully * De Limburger *
This book deserves all the readers in the world. A deeply personal portrait of how one lives with anxiety, coming deep from within. An intense and essential experience for many a reader – Abdelkader Benali
I am deeply impressed. Truly an encyclopaedia of the many ways fear and anxiety are rooted in modern Western culture – Marcel Möring
For subjective insight The Anxiety Project is superb … If you want to know how it feels, or what it can do to quality of life and everyday functioning, [it] will tell you * Times Literary Supplement *

About The Author

Daan Heerma van Voss

Daan Heerma van Voss has written for several national and international newspapers, such as The New York Times, Vogue US, Pen International, Haaretz, Dissidentbloggen, and Svenska Dagbladet. His novels have been shortlisted for several awards and he was awarded De Tegel for extraordinary journalistic achievements. His much-acclaimed novel The Last War was translated into German, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese. The Anxiety Project is his first major work of nonfiction.

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