Marginality as a way to gaining identity. Mentalization-based treatment approaches towards minority individuals
Marginality as a way to gaining identity. Mentalization-based treatment approaches towards minority individuals

Summary/Abstract: The text analyses the process of marginalization purposefully mediated or moderated by the individual, and to which they have been subjected unintentionally or against their will, to acquire a (new) identity, which in most cases and to varying degrees turns out to be desired by the individual themselves, and subsequently becomes permanently maintained until it is established (accepted), but now of their own volition. The process is particularly visible in cases where it accompanies or follows another process – the so called "auto-" or "self-segregation". Issues of inequality and social exclusion remain outside the focus of therapy, but a possible approach with proven positive influence and beneficial impact is mentalization-based therapy, especially in terms of attachment issues faced by marginalized people, given that mentalization can be a form of protection against minority stress and problems faced by marginalized group members.

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