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As he suggests in his title, the author develops an analogy between the creative, spontaneous improvisations of the jazz musician and the thoughts and behavior of the effective psychotherapist in clinic encounters. Both musician and therapist must
be simultaneously connected with personal past and present, must have intensely focused attention on the present interaction, and must be free to experiment and to "recognize the significance of accidental experience."