In practice, no two psychotherapists perform treatment in precisely the same fashion, and even with respect to any particular intervention, different therapists are likely to hold different opinions about how to respond, even when they are adherents of the same school of thought. Therapeutic style refers to the way a therapist does therapy, as distinguished from their theoretical orientation, which refers to the way they explain therapy. Like the practice of surgery, dance, painting, and acting, the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is a performing art.