1.5 CEs for New York State psychologists, social workers, licensed mental health counselors and psychoanalysts.

*Daniel Tutt's biography & full description of the content → on the "Speaker Series" page*

The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and 70s redefined the bonds of romance and its effects have shaped the private sphere of intimacy, in ways that have promoted a more egalitarian form of marriage and matrimony. But these changes occurred in a context of profound wealth and class inequality since the late 1970s, resulting in the instrumentalization of love and marriage. Today, the marriage bond is centered around the maximization of pleasure and self-worth, and potential marriage partners are sought out to provide the necessary stability for each partner to achieve these aims. This has created a process of what the sociologist Eva Illouz refers to as “unloving”, or the process in which people reject forms of intimacy due to the market instrumentalization that has overrode intimacy. And the material effects of this process have affected middle- and working-class people in different ways. Within marriages today, the rise of assortative marriage...