Physical pain can be evoked by psychological factors as somatic hallucinations which are remotely localized from mental sites and perceived as pain at bodily regional sites. The attributes of these pains are the same in settings of neuroses, psychoses and situational states. These pains occur as part of a pain syndrome which may include sensory, motor, vegetative and reflex signs. The syndrome is a regional behavioural expression of a personal state of danger or injury. These pains can be expected to appear frequently in neurological and neurosurgical practice. The majority of them can be effectively treated by applying psychiatric procedures within an holistic method of study and treatment, The current concepts of conversion and conversion hysteria do not account for all of these pains. In some the pain and behavior of injury would seem to be direct emotional expressions of personal injury; in others the efficient cause is not explained. It is suggested that the term "hysterical pain" be discarded since it may be misleading and is also often misunderstood by patients, families and lay bodies. "Psychogenic Regional Pain" is offered as an accurate designation for these pains which come and go under the influence of meaningful life situations and are felt in a region of the body.