Negative emotions caused by trauma and fear can have destructive effects on an individual’s psychological well-being, which can consequently impact their physical well-being in the form of psychosomatic pain. Emotions, negative or positive, may create pathological neural networks (PPNs) that become ingrained in the subconscious of an individual and consequently perpetuate psychosomatic pain. Therapeutic interventions such as extinction learning, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), regression hypnotherapy, and classical hypnosis have been traditionally utilized as treatment for psychosomatic pain, sometimes alone and sometimes in conjunction with medication. These methods strive to reach a state of calmness. In practice this state of calmness does not necessarily imply that the psychosomatic pain(s) and associated negative emotion(s) have been eliminated, and therefore can still be triggered. In order to properly address psychosomatic pain and negative emotions, one must push past the state of calmness achieved by other therapies to essentially feel absolutely nothing. Traditional therapies aim to achieve a state of calmness but may not fully eliminate psychosomatic pain and negative emotions. Mindchat therapy, a form of de-hypnosis, aims to reach a state of "absolute nothingness" by shifting a person's neuropathology and destroying the inhibiting pathological neural networks. This therapy alone can successfully eliminate psychosomatic pain and negative emotions by going beyond the feelings of calmness achieved by other therapies. The objective of this article is to explore the link between negative emotions and psychosomatic pain through PNNs from a neuropsychological perspective.
