The medical consultation may be extended if and when needed to obtain more psycho-social data by extending the examination and investigations using tools. Psycho-social issues from the patient may be asked by direct questioning (invoke). However, tools remembered by the acronym ‘M.I.N.D’ may also be used to evoke such data by the use of metaphors, ironies, nothingness and disruptions of the mind processes. The methods have also been called active listening. To investigate certain issues further, the technique of investigations of the mind called Socratic inquiry may be used.