Phantom pain is a kind of pain that feels like it’s coming from that part of a body that is no longer there. Doctors used to believe that this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but today experts recognize that these are real sensations originating in the spinal cord and brain. Phantom pain is a kind of pain that feels like it’s coming from that part of a body that is no longer there. Doctors used to believe that this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but today experts recognize that these are real sensations originating in the spinal cord and brain.