Flavia Piola's photo series on psychiatric patients during COVID-19
Flavia Piola's photographic series 'Gli Alienati al tempo del Coronavirus' documents life in the Psychiatric Diagnosis and Care Service (SPDC) of Rome's San Filippo Neri Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project highlights how forced isolation and social distancing measures mirror the everyday reality of psychiatric patients, who face additional challenges from medication side effects and societal indifference. Psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad of Brigham Young University links loneliness and social isolation to worsened physical and mental health, a condition exacerbated for SPDC patients. Healthcare workers played a crucial role in their survival. The series was published in Artribune Magazine #55.
Key facts
- Project by Flavia Piola titled 'Gli Alienati al tempo del Coronavirus'
- Location: Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura (SPDC), Ospedale San Filippo Neri, Rome
- Date: April 27, 2020
- References Théodore Géricault's early 19th-century portraits of 'alienati'
- Mentions psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad from Brigham Young University
- Published in Artribune Magazine #55
- Focuses on impact of COVID-19 isolation on psychiatric patients
- Highlights role of healthcare workers and effects of psychotropic drugs
Entities
Artists
- Flavia Piola
- Théodore Géricault
Institutions
- Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura (SPDC)
- Ospedale San Filippo Neri
- Brigham Young University
- Artribune Magazine
Locations
- Rome
- Italy