Anastasia Rosen-Jones

Introducing Anastasia The Storyteller

(Formerly Marcia E. Rosen)

Read about Anastasia's commitment to bringing her stories, personal and professional, to the general public here.

New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones, a once famous Washington, D.C. businesswoman with clients in the White House and on Capitol Hill, M. Anastasia Rosen-Jones (formerly Marcia E. Rosen), went on to become a psychotherapist after leaving the D.C. fast track in 1974, in the midst of the Watergate break-in scandal. Now a retired therapist, with more than twenty-five years in private practice in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, specializing in treating relationship and personality addictions, Anastasia has gone on to contribute notable research to her field of specialization, focusing on the applications of what she has developed to social and political issues. 

Her main emphasis in this field has been on the collusion between the aggressive addict (i.e. the prototypical drug and/or alcohol addicted, gambler etc., including the power-addicted, as well as addictions to money, status, control, righteousness and anger), especially the aggressive/power addict, and the passive addict (widely known as the codependent personality).

This emphasis grew out of research done by Ms. Rosen-Jones  as she was completing her undergraduate studies in the Women's Studies Department of the University of Maryland, College Park, majoring in a designed focus on "Counseling The Woman In Transition. The study was begun in 1984 and continues to be revised and updated, as needed, to the present day. Its current manifestation is in the form of New Horizons Possible Human, Possible Society Study, circa 2011.

However, Anastasia began developing her groundbreaking strategies for addressing the problem areas between aggressive/power-addicted addicts and the passive addict in the mid-1970s, prior to the research indicated above. 

She became increasingly adept at managing these, under the tutledge and guidance of her mentor, Martin G. Groder, M.D., a former prison psychiatrist known for rehabilitating repeat offenders. Her forays into this area took shape during her term as the Clinical Director of a shelter for abused women, under Dr. Groder's supervision

The three books known as Ms. Rosen-Jones' "Random House Trilogy" are based on this research, including anecdotal details on Anastasia's training experiences with Dr. Groder. 

The main premise of these books, emerging out of Ms. Rosen-Jones cutting edge research of that time, is that contemporary women have become more addicted than formerly by, now, taking on the addict patterns formerly characteristic of men.

"The challenge in this for women is to learn how to blend and balance the best in themselves, without gender dictates. And from this stance develop into being surperb human beings, innate source for all future generations."

Given Ms. Rosen-Jones' close proximity to the Washington political arena and her equally close connection, emotionally, spiritually and practically, to the Watergate break-in episode in which associates of hers played not insignificant roles, her focus on interactions between power addicts and codependents arose naturally. 

Prompted by the Watergate scandal, Ms. Rosen has, in fact, dedicated her life's work to understanding and treating problems that arise out of the collusive and sometimes deadly connection between these two types of addicts; the aggressive addict and the passive.

To her credit, Ms. Rosen-Jones has six books in various stages of progress,*numerous articles, three intriguing blog sites and two online radio shows to her credit.