The schizophrenic's use of language has a bearing on the theory and practice of his analysis. Employing 'conventional' analytic procedures in the analysis of three schizophrenics, Bion concluded that they used language in three ways: as a mode of action, as a method of communication, and as a mode of thought. Words are used as things or split off parts of the self which the patient pushes forcibly into the analyst, and as a way of splitting the object (analyst). Bion illustrates the way in which such patients employ language (or avoid it) to communicate ideation of the primary process. Verbal thought can come to be viewed as dangerous; therefore such patients 'push it into their analyst'. Because verbal thought can increase the pains of psychic reality, these patients turn destructively against verbal thought.