Book Announcement by Tahirí Rojas (Uruguay)

Rojas, T. (2026). Recidivist victims in psychoanalysis: The attachment to suffering and the hope for repair. Routledge.

Recidivist Victims in Psychoanalysis: The Attachment to Suffering and the Hope for Repair explores a recurring clinical question: Why do some people repeatedly return to relationships and situations that cause suffering, even when they recognize the harm involved?

From a relational psychoanalytic perspective, Tahirí Rojas proposes the concept of the “recidivist victim” and develops a spectrum for understanding different ways in which repetition, suffering, desire, and relational hope become intertwined. Rather than reducing repetition to pathology, dependency, or resistance to change, this book considers what may continue to be sought within it: recognition, repair, and the possibility that a familiar relational story might finally end differently.

The book, part of Routledge’s Relational Perspectives Book Series, also examines responsibility without blame and proposes a clinical approach attentive to subtle forms of transformation, including those that may not resemble conventional therapeutic change.

www.routledge.com/Recidivist-Victims-in-Psychoanalysis

Tahirí Rojas, Ph.D., is a Venezuelan psychologist, psychotherapist, author, and researcher currently based in Montevideo, Uruguay. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience and holds a Ph.D. in Human Sciences. Her work explores relational psychoanalysis, repetition, suffering, hope for repair, therapist subjectivity, and subtle forms of therapeutic transformation. Her current work develops the concept of “poetic attainment” as a relational approach to modest but meaningful forms of psychological transformation.

Tahirí Rojas, Ph.D.
Montevideo, Uruguay
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