Steven Rosenstein

Steven began his career, after graduating from Hunter College, as a caseworker for the New York City Department of Social Services, Protective Services, investigating the horrors of the abuse and neglect of children. After attaining master’s degrees in Social Work and School Psychology, and then completing a post-graduate education in Psychoanalytic Therapy, he became a School Psychologist in the New York City Department of Education and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in his private therapy practice on Long Island. treating adults, adolescents, children, and couples. Always striving to improve his understanding of human nature, he researched and then wrote a personal improvement book, Taming Your Inner & Outer Bullies: Confronting Life’s Stressors And Winning, which offers remarkable insights into behavior, societal institutions, and relationships. Steven has written articles on the web concerning human nature, relationships and the abuses of societal institutions, done lectures, and appeared on radio shows. Always having a vivid imagination and a desire to write fiction, he developed his writing skills by becoming a successful writer of short stories, all of which have been published on the web or in print. In the beginning, Stephen King and Peter Straub were Steven's favorite authors and he wrote in their graphic styles. However, as an expert in human psychology, he has been able to develop characters from the dark side of human nature where his villains don’t aspire for happiness through personal achievement, but rather from their demented narcissistic schemes. Many of Steven's characters have been taken from his clinical experiences.