But her work is challenged by practitioners of the alternative therapy. In therapeutic touch, the practitioner does not touch the patient.
Practitioners also transmit energy from their own hands to the patient's energy field.
The practice of therapeutic touch has its believers and defenders. Calif. Emily enlisted 21 therapeutic-touch practitioners as volunteers for her study and asked them to tell her when they could feel the energy field from her hand as she held it above their upturned palm. They could not see her as she did this. They were correct only 47 percent of the time. Randi makes it his business to debunk anything mystical or magical and he includes in that such things as extrasensory perception and moving objects with the mind.