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"Personality like an onion" CORRECT ANSWERS Perls viewed the personality like an onion, containing five layers needing to be peeled in order to reach maturity. These layers were labeled as the phony, the phobic, the impasse, the implosive, and the explosive. Anxiety CORRECT ANSWERS Viewed in Gestalt therapy as the space between the present moment and the excitement of creative expression Awareness CORRECT ANSWERS It is through insight, self-acceptance, direct experience, and responsi...