Friendship and Fratricide, an Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss is a 1967 book by psychoanalyst Meyer A.

[1][2][3] In his work, Zeligs argued that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality who had framed Alger Hiss.

[9][10][11] In 1978, The New York Times reflected that the work "stirred controversy when it was published in 1967 with the conclusion that Whittaker Chambers was a psychopathic personality".

[13] Another reviewer characterized the work as a novel genre in an article entitled "The Potential of Psychoanalytic Biography".

[14] The Harvard Crimson opined that work "only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime"[15] Time reviewed the book under the title "Slander of a Dead Man"[16] In the 1999 work "The Strange Case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers", the author argues that "Zeligs was addressing himself to a genuine psychological riddle in writing Friendship and Fratricide."