keep himself calm, he carries a fragment of his childhood blue blanket everywhere he goes and goes into hysterics when someone takes it from him until they give it back to him. In Sesame Street, Julia loves her stuffed doll named Fluffster. Due to her autism; whenever someone else has it, it leaves her distressed. In Sesamstraße, the German version of Sesame Street, one of the main characters, a big brown bear named Samson, is very fond of the smell of his security blanket which he calls 'Schnuffeltuch' (engl. 'nuzzle cloth'). In the film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue Blanket more than anything else, to the point of not wanting to share it, as it is very special to him. When it is stolen, he sets out on an epic quest to get it back. In the book The Giver, "comfort object" is used as a term to refer to all stuffed animals. The comfort objects are described as being "imaginary creatures with funny names" because the dystopian community where the book takes place has no animals. See also Clare Britton Comfort behavior in animals Jointness Kneading References Further reading Abram, J. (1996). The Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary of Winnicott's Use of Words. London: Karnac Books. Mitchell, S. A., Black, M. J. (1995). Freud and beyond: A history of modern psychoanalytic thought. New York: Basic Books. O'Halloran, Barbara Collopy (2002). Creature Comforts: People and Their Security Objects. Photographed by Betty Udesen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. . Winnicott, D. W. (1971). Playing and Reality. London: Routledge. Young, R. M. (1989). "Transitional phenomena: production and consumption", in B. Richards, ed., Crises of the Self: Further Essays on Psychoanalysis and Politics. London: Free Association Books. pp. 57–72. Young, R. M. (1994). Mental Space. London: Process Press. Personal life Childhood Child development Object relations theory