“…Three studies that used the WAIS-III in a long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy context reported only testretest changes in patients and did not attempt to find predictive outcome variables. 16,21,33 In the present study, the sociodemographic domain did not result in statistically significant predictive variables (i.e., age, sex, marital status, and level of education). Some studies, however, identified age as a predictor of slower response to treatment, 7,26 while others found no association between age and treatment outcome.…”