نقش سرندیپیتی در روان درمانی: پلی به هنردرمانی خلاق

In 1754, Horace Walpole (1717-1779) proposed the addition of the term “serendipity” to the English lexicon, based on the Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. It was defined as the discovery of valuable things not sought for through the combi- nation of accidental events and sagacity. Although Walpole’s term has survived to date, its original definition changed. The sagacity factor has been dropped in many contemporary popular dictio- nary definitions. In Rosenman’s (1988) view, “Sa- gacity, defined as penetrating intelligence, keen per- ception and sound judgment, is the key element of serendipity” (p. 132). Nevertheless, despite these conceptual differences, serendipity’s contributions to many discoveries in science are by now famous (e.g., Fleming’s penicillin, Gram’s staining technique, etc.), even though many have considered it “unsci- entific” to reveal such data. By contrast, serendipi- ty’s role in advancing psychological treatment is less