Lorie Eve Dechar, MAc, is an acupuncturist, author, artist, and alchemist. Her book, Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing, explores wushen—the little-known Taoist version of the chakra system—and offers a vision of healing as transformation.
She received her Master’s degree from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in 1985, and studied psychotherapy for 18 years with alchemist and Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant. For the past 14 years, Lorie Eve Dechar has shared her multidimensional approach to healing with her patients, as well as with students at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture in Manhattan, the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto, and at conferences and workshops in the
States, and abroad.